This book is about statistics as it is used. The examples and exercises are from actual applications of statistics to business and administration, with few exceptions. The approach to the presentation of these useful quantitative tools is problem-oriented. In developing each concept, realistic business problems are posed and the appropriate statistical tool is then illustrated. This reverses the usual deductive approach which introduces the tool and then finds a problem to illustrate it. The author uses, instead,
the inductive approach. Thus, the need for the statistical tool is first established, through the use of real-world problems, and then the theoretical base is developed. This makes the subject matter more meaningful to the student who has been (or will be) faced with the increasing use of such statistical methods in modern business and administrative practice.