Reducing the emphasis on doing computations, this practical text thoroughly integrates Microsoftreg; Excel as a tool for analysis and presents statistical concepts in the context of the functional areas of business. Introduction; Organizing and Visualizing Data; Descriptive Statistics; Basic Probability; Discrete Probability Distributions; The Normal Distribution and Other Continuous Distributions; Sampling and Sampling Distributions; Confidence Interval Estimation; Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing: One-Sample Tests; Two-Sample Tests; Analysis of Variance; Chi-Square Tests and Non-Parametric Tests; Simple Linear Regression; Introduction to Multiple Regression; Multiple Regression Model Building; Time-Series Forecasting; Statistical Applications in Quality Management; Data Analysis Overview; Online Topic: Decision Making For professionals, particularly managers, making financial analyses and decisions.