Features
Preface
TOC
Formula Card
What's New
- Two new chapters on ANOVA and multiple regression.
- Expanded and diversified end-of-chapter material divided into 4 sections: Warm-Up Exercises, Think and Decide, Think and Decide with Excel, and Test Your Knowledge.
- New interior design that improves pedagogical presentation and readability.
- Excel material is now better identified and distinguished in each chapter.
- Integration of real-world content into Examples and Problems has been improved.
- All material is updated for Excel 2007
Hallmark Features
- Introduction & Learning Objectives provide an overview of the chapter content by describing a business problem or problems relevant to the chapter's theme.
- Comprehensive use of Excel throughout the text; clear screen-shots of Excel applications included.
- Relevant and up-to-date Canadian examples and applications that students can readily grasp and relate to appear throughout the text.
- Key concepts: presented in context as well as graphically in each chapter.
- Develop Your Skills Exercises: designed to test and reinforce students' understanding of the material.
- Guides to Technique and Guides to Decision-Making summarize the steps involved for certain important tasks.
- Annotated examples: Every example in the book has a note in the margin that describes what statistical technique is being addressed
- Excel instructions: Detailed Excel instructions, with dialogue boxes, are included in the text and highlighted with an icon in the margin.
- MyStatLab: A powerful online tool that combines assessment, reporting, and personalized study to help both students and instructors succeed. It is packaged with the textbook at no extra cost.