The third edition of Business Statistics: Communicating with Numbers provides a unique innovative and engaging learning experience for students studying Business Statistics. It is an intellectually stimulating practical and visually attractive textbook from which students can learn and instructors can teach. Throughout the book the authors have presented the material in an accessible way by using timely business applications to which students can relate. Although the text is application-oriented it is also mathematically sound and uses notation that is generally accepted for the topic being covered. Salient Features: 1. New! Integration of R across the chapters 2. New! Focus on the p-Value Approach since virtually every statistical software package reports p-values 3. New! Dozens of new examples, exercises, introductory cases, and case studies have been added 4. New! Sections on structured data, unstructured data, and big data 5. Wide array of pedagogical features such as Writing with Statistics, Integrated Introductory Cases, integration of MS Excel, etc 6. Unique coverage of regression analysis 7. Methodical presentation, beginning with intuition and explanation and concluding with application About the Author Sanjiv Jaggia Sanjiv Jaggia is the associate dean of graduate programs and a professor of economics and finance at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California. After earning a Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington, in 1990, Dr. Jaggia spent 17 years at Suffolk University, Boston. In 2003, he became a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®). Dr. Jaggias research interests include empirical finance, statistics, and econometrics. He has published extensively in research journals, including the Journal of Empirical Finance, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, and Journal of Econometrics. Dr. Jaggias ability to communicate in the classroom has been acknowledged by several teaching awards. In 2007, he traded one coast for the other and now lives in San Luis Obispo, California, with his wife and daughter. Alison Kelly Alison Kelly is a professor of economics at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts. She received her B.A. degree from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts; her M.A. degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles; and her Ph.D. from Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Dr. Kelly has published in journals such as the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Macroeconomics, Review of Income and Wealth, Applied Financial Economics, and Contemporary Economic Policy. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) and teaches review courses in quantitative methods to candidates preparing to take the CFA exam. Dr. Kelly has also served as a consultant for a number of companies; her most recent work focused on how large financial institutions satisfy requirements mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act.
