Data Analysis and Decision Making With Microsoft Excel [Hardcover]

S. Christian Albright (Author), Wayne L. Winston (Author), Christopher Zappe (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0534261248 | ISBN-13: 978-0534261245 | Publication Date: January 15, 1999 | Edition: Bk&CD Rom

In response to the growing market trend in quantitative education, Albright, Winston, and Zappe's integrated business-statistics and management-science text presents core statistics and management-science methods in a modern, unified spreadsheet-oriented approach. With a focus on analyzing, not on techniques, the book covers business statistics with some essential managerial-science topics included. The example-based, Excel spreadsheet approach is useful in courses that combine traditional statistics and management-science topics though can be easily used for a one-term business statistics only course. The modeling and application focus, together with the Excel spreadsheet add-ins, provides a complete learning source for both students and practicing managers.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 996 pages
• Publisher: Duxbury Pr; Bk&CD Rom edition (January 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0534261248
• ISBN-13: 978-0534261245
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8.3 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #853,268 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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45 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Better Title: Intro to Statistics using Excel Add-ins, June 3, 2001

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[e-mail] (Gainesveille, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Data Analysis and Decision Making With Microsoft Excel (Hardcover)

On the positive side, this book has many excellent case studies and examples. It is well written and interesting. However, I was disappointed, as I was expecting use of Excel to rigorously solve decision making and data analysis problems. The focus of the book is mostly traditional statistics solved using a group of commercial add-ins for Excel. If this is what you want, then the book would get five stars. However, for data analysis and decision making, I think a more thorough treatment using Excel without relying so much on the add-ins would have been appropriate.

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Strong Software Addition:, August 20, 1999

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Kirk S. Johnson (Batavia, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Data Analysis and Decision Making With Microsoft Excel (Hardcover)

This book was put together in the same 'spirit' as previous other Winston books; good examples, well thought out attack approaches; as well as a good summary of all the types of problems encountered in the text! I have several other of Winston books, so I'm reasonably happy with his work! I am growing a little frustrated with winston et al. over the fact that they offer no solutions or answers to the many exercise problems contained throughout the text. I don't think Winston realizes that professionals outside of the classroom are buying these books and don't have the luxury of a professor sharing answers to the problems. This is where I think he can improve. The software addition, from palisades was an excellent addition to the text! I had already owned many of the commercial versions but have found that the suite, provided with the text, was just as robust as my retail versions.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good book but software is a source of troubles, July 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Data Analysis and Decision Making With Microsoft Excel (Hardcover)

The book itself is an exteremely good source of theory and problems. However, accompanying software is a reason for many disappointments. There are undocumented bugs and compatibility issues. Some supporting material for the book is still not available and customer support could have been better.