Customer Reviews

Business Statistics: Contemporary Decision Making

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Very good book for business majors taking a statistics class. Statistics is not easy to understand, but this book tries to make it as painless as possible. The flow is easy to follow and the examples make it all the more understandable.

The book is well written. The author kept the narration relevant to issues the business manager faces today. The sample problems are very instructive. There are inputs at the end of each chapter of how to use Excel and Minitab to solve the problems. I struggled with Stats in Undergrad. Ready now for the MBA class!!! Bring it on!!

Although this book didn't arrive as fast as I needed/wanted it to, it came in great condition.

Good economics book. Could use more real-world examples.
The book arrived in good condition but did not include the CD that would have been there had I purchased it from a brick and mortar book store.

I am in an MBA program that required the new (6th) edition of this book for my course. They wanted $189+ tax for it at my local university bookstore, and (being a savvy business student) I used the power of supply and demand to save money by buying the 5th edition. After working with fellow students that purchased the 6th edition with the included disk (which I'll get to in a moment), I haven't noticed any major differences. With that being said, I can't speak to the order of sample problems. We do not do problems out of the book, so they might be slightly renumbered between editions (though I doubt it). The chapters and content layout seem to be nearly identical, and the concepts are essentially the same. I find this text very difficult to follow, and poorly written. I don't tend to understand what I read until my professor presents the material in class. After seeing my professor use various diagrams and simplified equations in class, I can't figure out why the author didn't use them as well. The bottom line is that this book is not "easy" to learn from, and you probably won't enjoy cracking it open after lecture. It does contain the necessary formulas and content to build skills, but they are not presented very well.

A word about the disk-
My book did not include the disk that is supposed to supplement the text, so this is only what I have been told by other students. They said that the disk is worthless, and that you have to pay additional money to access anything of use on it. I would save your money, and seek free info from online resources. I have bought books in the past with disks, and they never seemed to help me much.