This textbook gives students in the fields of business administration and economics a conceptual introduction to the field of statistics and statistical applications. The authors (of the U. of Cincinnati and the Rochester Institute of Technology) introduce and develop the statistical techniques within application settings of data analysis. Their chapters cover descriptive statistics, probability, discrete probability distributions, continuous probability distributions, sampling and sampling distributions, interval estimation, hypothesis tests, comparisons involving means, comparisons involving proportions and a test of independence, simple linear regression, and multiple regression. In order to streamline the material, all homework exercises and case problems have been eliminated from the text and are provided online via the publishers website. Annotation 漏2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)