Summary

Written for a one-semester introduction to business statistics, the third abridged edition of Australian Business Statistics contains 14 of the 24 chapters that appear in the new third edition of the comprehensive companion volume. The content of the abridged edition has been structured to include the topics most commonly taught in the one-semester subject offered at universities in Australia and New Zealand. If you and your students have encountered difficulty in covering all of the content offered in the more comprehensive business-statistics textbooks, this abridged edition could be the solution you have been looking for. Following the style of the comprehensive volume, the abridged text uses the authors unique three-step approach to problem solving in order to teach students how to apply statistics to real business problems. Students learn to identify the right technique by focusing on the relationship between the problem and data type. They then learn to compute the answer either by hand or using Microsoft® Excel. Finally, they interpret the results in the context of the problem.