This 13th edition of Statistics for Business and Economics is an introductory text emphasizing inference, with extensive coverage of data collection and analysis as needed to evaluate the reported results of statistical studies and make good decisions. As in earlier editions, the text stresses the development of statistical thinking, the assessment of credibility and value of the inferences made from data, both by those who consume and by those who produce them. It assumes a mathematical background of basic algebra.

这第13版的《商业与经济统计》是一篇强调推理的介绍性文本，根据需要广泛覆盖数据收集和分析评估统计研究的报告结果并做出正确的决定。与早期版本一样，文本强调统计思维的发展，评估数据推断的可信度和价值，无论是由消费者还是由生产者。它假设有基础代数的数学背景。