Basic Business Statistics: Concepts and Applications (8th Edition) [Hardcover]

Mark L. Berenson (Author), David M. Levine (Author), Timothy C. Krehbiel (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0130903000 | ISBN-13: 978-0130903006 | Publication Date: July 27, 2001 | Edition: 8

For a one- or two-semester undergraduate course in business statistics. This comprehensive 18 chapter text focuses on the underlying statistical concepts that are important to students majoring in business. The authors take an applied approach and relate the concepts and applications of statistics to the functional areas of business-accounting, marketing, management, and economics and finance. This text also emphasizes the proper use of statistics to analyze data and assumes that computer software is an integral part of this analysis. The 8th edition has been thoroughly revised to improve the applications and better motivate the statistical topics. Both Excel and Minitab software are featured.

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Takes a practical, data analytic approach to the teaching of business statistics through the development and use of a survey. The fundamental strengths of the Sixth Edition are its innovative, data-analytic survey-research approach and its pedagogical features. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 870 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 8 edition (July 27, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130903000
• ISBN-13: 978-0130903006
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.1 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #529,866 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Decent, February 7, 2010

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This review is from: Basic Business Statistics (11th Edition) (Hardcover)

Overall I think it's a pretty decent textbook content wise. It could be organized a bit better. One shouldn't have to turn back 5 pages to review referenced illustrations and tables. Also the Excel appendicies steps should be revisited. I had to use YouTube for thorough step by step instructions. This was an overall issue with my classmates as well and I pointed them to the Youtube site and they found the instructions there much easier to follow for the assigned tasks.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Text but CD doesn't work, February 24, 2009

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Sulyah - See all my reviews

This review is from: Basic Business Statistics (11th Edition) (Hardcover)

This text is great but the CD that comes with it does not load the PHStat onto my computer. Don't know why though.

10 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good, but could be better, October 19, 2000

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Benjamin F. Schumin "Ben Schumin" (Silver Spring, Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Basic Business Statistics: Concepts and Applications (7th Edition) (Hardcover)

This book is okay, but it could definitely be better. For a basic statistics class, this book contains WAY too much information to digest in a semester of college. No professor I know of has ever gotten past chapter 8. Further, the problems are quite wimpy as far as the amount of thought required for them. Quite wimpy. Could be better. The only good thing is that for doing it on a spreadsheet, the data comes on a CD, so that you don't have to re-type it, thankfully.