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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. Throughout the book the content has is presented in an accessible way by using timely business applications to which students can relate. The text is application-oriented and also mathematically sound and uses notation that is generally accepted for the topic being covered.Highlights:✔ Integrated Introductory Cases: Each chapter begins with an interesting and relevant introductory case. The case is threaded throughout the chapter, and it often serves as the basis of several examples in other chapters.✔ Updated Pedagogy: Textbook content is tagged by learning objective, Bloom’s Taxonomy, AACSB criteria and difficulty level. The Learning Outcomes have been rewritten to enhance consistency, Excel instructions have been streamlined in every chapter, New application exercises of varying levels of difficulty have been added to every section.✔ Unique Coverage of Regression Analysis: Relevant coverage of regression without repetition is an important hallmark of this text.✔ Integration of Microsoft Excel®: Students are taught to develop an understanding of the concepts and how to derive the calculation; then Excel is used as a tool to perform the cumbersome calculations. In addition, guidelines for using Minitab, SPSS, and JMP are provided in chapter appendices.