Data Analysis and Decision Making with Microsoft Excel (with InfoTrac and CD-ROM) [Hardcover]

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

Book Description

Publication Date: August 12, 2002 | ISBN-10: 053438367X | ISBN-13: 978-0534383671 | Edition: 2

The emphasis of the text is on data analysis, modeling, and spreadsheet use in statistics and management science. This text contains professional Excel software add-ins. The authors maintain the elements that have made this text a market leader in its first edition: clarity of writing, a teach-by-example approach, and complete Excel integration.

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About the Author

Chris Albright received his B.S. degree in Mathematics from Stanford in 1968 and his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Stanford in 1972. Since then, he has been teaching in the Operations and Decision Technologies Department in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He has taught courses in management science, computer simulation, and statistics to all levels of business students: undergraduates, MBAs, and doctoral students. He has published over 20 articles in leading operations research journals in the area of applied probability, and he has authored other successful Duxbury titles including PRACTICAL MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, Second Edition, VBA FOR MODELERS, and DATA ANALYSIS AND DECISION MAKING, Second Edition. His current interest is in spreadsheet modeling, including development of VBA applications in Excel.

Wayne L. Winston is Professor of Operations and Decision Technologies in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, where he has taught since 1975. Wayne received his B.S. degree in Mathematics from MIT and his Ph.D. degree in Operations Research from Yale. He has written the successful textbooks OPERATIONS RESEARCH: APPLICATIONS AND ALGORITHMS, MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING: APPLICATIONS AND ALGORITHMS, SIMULATION MODELING WITH @RISK, PRATICAL MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, AND FINANCIAL MODELS USING SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION. Wayne has published over 20 articles in leading journals and has won many teaching awards, including the school-wide MBA award four times. His current interest is in showing how spreadsheet models can be used to solve business problems in all disciplines, particularly in finance and marketing.

Chris Zappe earned his BA in mathematics from DePauw University in 1983 and his MBA and Ph.D. in Decision Sciences from Indiana University in 1987 and 1988, respectively. Between 1988 and 1993, he performed research and taught various courses in the decision sciences area at the University of Florida in the College of Business Administration. Since 1993, Chris has been serving as an associate professor of decision sciences in the Department of Management at Bucknell University. He currently teaches undergraduate courses in business statistics, decision analysis, and computer simulation. Moreover, Chris teaches advanced seminars in applied game theory, system dynamics, risk assessment, and mathematical economics. He has published articles in various journals including Managerial and Decision Economics, OMEGA, Naval Research Logistics, and Interfaces, and is co-author of DATA ANALYSIS AND DECISION MAKING. His current scholarly interests focus on mathematical programming models of performance appraisal processes and innovative pedagogies in operations research/management science.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1032 pages
• Publisher: Duxbury Press; 2 edition (August 12, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 053438367X
• ISBN-13: 978-0534383671
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 8.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.6 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,782,004 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)