This text is intended for the two-term introductory statistics course for business and economics majors at the undergraduate or MBA level. College Algebra is a prerequisite. The author emphasizes statistical inference and model-building in a real-world context and presents a complete introduction to regression and forecasting. Statistical software output from SPSS, MINITAB, and SAS is included in each chapter's "Computer Applications" section to aid students in understanding and interpreting statistical output.