Statistical Thinking in Business [With CDROM] Contributor(s): John, J. A. (Author), Whitaker, D. (Author), Johnson, D. G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1584884959 ISBN-13: 9781584884958 Publisher: CRC Press OUR PRICE: $104.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2005 Annotation: Providing an introductory course in business statistics for students with little mathematical background, this edition removes the "workbook" approach to make room for more materials with greater emphasis on forecasting and time series, using histograms and scatterplots, and goodness-of-fit. A supporting Web site provides a wealth of supplemental materials. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Probability & Statistics - General - Business & Economics | Management Science |
Dewey: 001.422 |
LCCN: 2005005695 |
Physical Information: 0.88" H x 7" W x 10.07" (1.71 lbs) 408 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Business students need the ability to think statistically about how to deal with uncertainty and its effect on decision-making in business and management. Traditional statistics courses and textbooks tend to focus on probability, mathematical detail, and heavy computation, and thus fail to meet the needs of future managers. Statistical Thinking in Business, Second Edition responds to the growing recognition that we must change the way business statistics is taught. It shows how statistics is important in all aspects of business and equips students with the skills they need to make sensible use of data and other information. The authors take an interactive, scenario-based approach and use almost no mathematical formulas, opting to use Excel for the technical work. This allows them to focus on using statistics to aid decision-making rather than how to perform routine calculations. New in the Second Edition
The second edition also comes with a wealth of ancillary materials provided on downloadable resources packaged with the book. These include automatically-marked multiple-choice questions, answers to questions in the text, data sets, Excel experiments and demonstrations, an introduction to Excel, and the StiBstat Add-In for stem and leaf plots, box plots, distribution plots, control charts and summary statistics. |