Includes bibliographical references and index.

"As recently as a decade ago our students used to ask us, "How do I use statistics?" Today we more often hear, "Why should I use statistics?" Applied Statistics in Business and Economics has attempted to provide real meaning to the use of statistics in our world by using real business situations and real data and appealing to your need to know why rather than just how. With over 50 years of teaching statistics between the two of us, we feel we have something to offer. Seeing how students have changed how students have changed over the last few decades has required us to adapt and seek out better ways of instruction. So we wrote Applied Statistics in Business and Economics to meet four distinct objectives"-- Provided by publisher.