This title is a Pearson Global Edition. The Editorial team at Pearson has worked closely with educators around the world to include content, which is especially relevant to students outside the United States. Helps students understand the role of statistics in their future careers · New - This edition contains a new Business Analytics Chapter that makes extensive use of JMP and Minitab to illustrate predictive analytics for prediction, classification, clustering, and association, as well as explaining what text analytics does and how descriptive and prescriptive analytics relate to predictive analytics. · Updated - Examples and Using Statistics business scenarios are drawn from all functional areas of business, helping students see how the concepts they’re learning apply to their future careers and providing an applied context for learning. · Project-Detailed Case Studies are included in numerous chapters. The Managing Ashland MultiComm Services continuing case, a team project related to bond funds, and undergraduate and graduate student surveys feature at the end of most chapters, helping to integrate learning across the chapters. · Digital Cases let students examine interactive PDFs to sift through various claims and information, discover the conclusions and claims supported by the data, and identify common misuses of statistical information. Gives students a framework to learn and understand statistical concepts · Updated - This text emphasizes data analysis and the interpretation of the results of a statistical method, rather than focusing on the mathematics of a method. The 14th Edition includes JMP results, supplementing the Excel and Minitab results from previous editions. · Visual Explorations allow students to interactively explore important statistical concepts in descriptive statistics, the normal distribution, sampling distributions, and regression analysis by using an Excel® add-in workbook and unique Excel integration. · New - Chapters 9 through 15 now include Tabular Summaries that state hypothesis test and regression example results, along with the conclusions that those results support. · Features like Consider This essays and Learn More bubbles provide greater insight into the material and raise important issues about the application of statistical knowledge. Enhances learning with flexible online features and software integration · Integrates Excel with Visual Explorations that demonstrate basic concepts, and designed and implemented PHStat, the Pearson statistical add-in for Excel that places the focus on statistical learning. · An extensive online library of separate topics, sections, and two full chapters allows instructors to tailor these materials to meet their curricular needs, and provides opportunities for additional learning. · New - A First Things First Chapter, available as a complimentary online download, allows students to get a head start on learning and uses real-world examples to illustrate how developments, such as the increasing use of business analytics and “big data,” have made knowing and understanding statistics even more important. · Updated - New JMP Guides and updated Excel and Minitab Guides provide detailed, hands-on instructions for using the most recent editions of tho