David F. Groebner - Business Statistics (8th Edition) (MyStatLab Series)

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MyStatLab is a text-specific, easily customizable online course that integrates interactive multimedia instruction with content from your Pearson textbook. As a part of the MyMathLab series, MyStatLab courses include all of MyMathLabs standard features, plus additional resources designed specifically to help students succeed in statistics, such as Java applets, statistical software, and more.

MyStatLab provides you with a rich and flexible set of course materials, along with course-management tools that make it easy to deliver all or a portion of your course online.

Powerful homework and test manager

Create, import, and manage online homework assignments, quizzes, and tests that are automatically graded, allowing you to spend less time grading and more time teaching. You can choose from a wide range of assignment options, including time limits, proctoring, and maximum number of attempts allowed.

Custom exercise builder

The MathXLExercise Builder (MEB) for MyStatLab lets you create static and algorithmic online exercises for your online assignments. Exercises can include number lines, graphs, and pie charts, and you can create custom feedback that appears when students enter answers.

Comprehensive gradebook

MyStatLabs online gradebook automatically tracks your students results on tests, homework, and tutorials. The gradebook provides a number of flexible grading options, including exporting grades to a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel.

MyStatLab provides students with a personalized, interactive environment where they can learn at their own pace and measure their progress.

Interactive tutorial exercises

MyStatLabs homework and practice exercises, correlated to the exercises in the textbook, are generated algorithmically, giving students unlimited opportunity for practice and mastery. Exercises include guided solutions, sample problems, and learning aids for extra help at point-of-use, and they offer helpful feedback when students enter incorrect answers.

StatCrunch

StatCrunch offers both numerical and data analysis and uses interactive graphics to illustrate the connection between objects selected in a graph and the underlying data. In most MyStatLab courses, all data sets from the textbook are pre-loaded in StatCrunch, and StatCrunch is also available as a tool from all online homework and practice exercises.

Applets

Applets display statistical concepts in a graphical manner and are suitable as classroom demonstration tools or for independent exploration.

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eighth edition

A Decision-Making Approach

DAVID F. GROEBNER
Boise State University, Professor Emeritus of Production Management

PATRICK W. SHANNON
Boise State University, Dean of the College of Business and Economics

PHILLIP C. FRY
Boise State University, Professor, ITSCM Department Chair

KENT D. SMITH
California Polytechnic University, Professor Emeritus of Statistics

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