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• Clear, concise presentation helps students quickly gain an understanding of the concepts.
• Rich problem sets give students the practice they need to learn the material.
• Do's and Don'ts at the end of each chapterhelp students to apply statistics correctly to avoid misuses.
• Computer exercises for MINITAB^® help students learn and become familiar with this software.
• Many data sets are drawn from author Richard Johnson's own consulting activities as well as discussions with scientists and engineers about their statistical problems. This helps illustrate the statistical methods and reasoning required in order to draw generalizations from data collected in actual experiments.

• Content highlights:
  • Case studies in the first two chapters illustrate the power of even simple statistical methods to suggest changes that make major improvements in production processes.
  • Graphs of the sampling distribution show the critical region and P value, and accompany the examples of testing hypotheses. These