This fifth edition aims to provide students with a solid understanding of statistical concepts. It also exposes students to the more contemporary uses of technology in business statistics. This book Excel output in text examples, to give students a foundation for learning and applying statistics with commercial software tools; a visual statistics software bundle that teaches statistics using multimedia enhanced visuals to help students understand business statistics concepts; and exercises, examples, problems and cases which offer students examples drawn from real business situations. The main aim of this book is to offer students a realistic understanding of statistics and how they are applied in business.
Amir Aczel was an Israeli-born American author of popular science and mathematics books. He was a lecturer in mathematics and history of mathematics.
He studied at the University of California, Berkeley. Getting graduating with a BA in mathematics in 1975, received a Master of Science in 1976 and several years later accomplished his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Oregon. He died in Nîmes, France in 2015.
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