Sanjiv Jaggia

Essentials of Business Statistics is your go-to resource for mastering the modern one-semester business statistics course. Designed to meet the evolving needs of both instructors and students, this title integrates Excel as a central teaching tool, offering cutting-edge features like enhanced Integrated Excel content, new graphing functionalities, and practical, relatable examples that bring statistics to life. With threaded case studies, technical writing exercises, and a focus on predictive and prescriptive analytics, it empowers educators to deliver engaging lessons while preparing students for real-world business challenges.

Business Statistics: Communicating with Numbers takes a comprehensive and contemporary approach that aims to bridge the gap between how statistics is taught and applied in the business world. This title not only prepares students in basic statistics but also gets them excited about further exploration of data analytics. The authors emphasize communicating with numbers rather than number crunching, through relatable case studies with relevant statistical methods and takeaways. This title incorporates timely examples from various fields, reinforces core features from previous editions, uses Excel and R to analyze data and solve problems, and includes new improvements, such as a revised chapter on data visualization, an exclusive chapter on logistic regression, and digital enhancements such as a big data capstone project with algorithmic exercises that span across multiple chapters.

Business Statistics strengthens the connection between the study of business statistics and the study of business analytics. The authors believe that the 4th edition will not only prepare students in basic statistics but will also get them ready and excited about further exploration of data analytics. This edition is available for use with McGraw Hill Connect®, a reliable, easy-to-use homework and learning management solution that embeds learning science and award-winning adaptive tools for better student results.

Overview: The second edition of Business Statistics: Communicating with Numbers provides a unique, innovative, and engaging learning experience for students studying Business Statistics. It is an intellectually stimulating, practical, and visually attractive textbook, from which students can learn and instructors can teach. Throughout the book, the authors have presented the material in an accessible way by using timely business applications to which students can relate. Although the text is application-oriented, it is also mathematically sound and uses notation that is generally accepted for the topic being covered.