Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics [Hardcover]

Robert D. Mason (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0256263078 | ISBN-13: 978-0256263077 | Edition: 10th

A comprehensive survey of statistical tools and methods for economics and business, this text presents key concepts and then illustrates them with a solved example.

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About the Author

Douglas A. Lind is now an adjunct professor at Coastal Carolina University. He earned his Ph.D. and an MBA from The University of Toledo and a Bachelor of Science in Business from Bowling Green State University. Dr. Lind is the co-author with the late Robert D. Mason and William G. Marchal of Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics and Basic Statistics for Business and Economics published by Irwin/McGraw-Hill and Statistics: An Introduction published by Duxbury. In addition he has written Study Guides to be used with these texts. Dr. Lind has more than 25 years of college teaching experience. This includes teaching statistics at the introductory, intermediate, and advanced undergraduate level, as well as graduate courses in statistics and research methods. He is a past recipient of the Tony DeJute Outstanding Teacher award. This award is given annually by the College of Business to the outstanding teacher in the College. He is active in both consulting and community service in Northwest Ohio. He has consulted with such national firms as Ford Motor Company, Key Bank, National City Bank, and the former Sheller Globe. Regional consulting includes work with The Toledo Hospital, St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, and the Toledo Community Oncology Program. He has served the community of Perrysburg, Ohio as a member of volunteer committees for the city and the school system. This includes his most avid avocation, coaching high school baseball, having served as a volunteer coach for more than 12 years. His professional memberships include The American Statistical Association, Decision Sciences, and The Textbook Author's Association.

William G. Marchal is Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management at The University of Toledo College of Business Administration. He received his B.S. degree in Mathematics from The University of Dayton, an M.A. in Mathematics from The Catholic University of America, and his D. Sc. in Operations Research from The George Washington University. Dr. Marchal has held visiting appointments at The University of Michigan and George Mason University. He has also worked at the Executive Office of the District of Columbia government, the George Washington University Institute for Management Science, and the U.S. Army Chemical Research & Development Center. Dr. Marchal is co-author with the late Robert D. Mason and Douglas A. Lind of three textbooks: Statistics: An Introduction; Statistical Techniques in Business & Economics; and Basic Statistics for Business & Economics. His research on stochastic models focuses on applications to waiting line models. Dr. Marchal has made paper presentations at meetings of professional societies, referred papers for journals and served as an associate editor of Naval Research Logistics. Published articles appear in the journals: Communications in Statistics, INFORMS, Journal on Computing, IIE Transactions, Interfaces, Operations Research, The Annals of Operations Research, AIIE Transactions and The Journal of Applied Probability.

Samuel Wathen is a Professor in the E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business Administration at Coastal Carolina University. He earned his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Minnesota, a M.B.A. from Oklahoma State University, a M.S. in Forest Biometrics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and a B.S. in Forestry from the University of Illinois. Dr. Wathen's research interests include applied statistics, teaching methods, and manufacturing and service process design. He has published articles in the International Journal of Operations and Production Management, National Productivity Review, International Journal of Service Industry Management, and the Journal of Workplace Learning: Employee Counseling Today. Dr. Wathen has 14 years of teaching experience. This includes introductory statistics, decision analysis, operations management, materials management, and service operations management. His experience spans both graduate and undergraduate programs. He attended a Master Teaching seminar held at Georgia State University that offered concepts and techniques to improve course design, course delivery, exam construction, student involvement, and many other aspects of teaching. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 928 pages
• Publisher: Richard D Irwin; 10th edition (October 2, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0256263078
• ISBN-13: 978-0256263077
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8.3 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #773,386 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best intro/intermediate statistics textbook available, June 23, 2005

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Michael Emmett Brady "mandmbrady" (Bellflower, California ,United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics with Student CD-Rom Mandatory Package (Hardcover)

This book is the best introductory to intermediate statistics textbook currently available.The authors do an excellent job of explaining how to go about doing statistics.The example problems are throughly worked out for the beginning student.All the steps needed to solve the various kinds of problems that a student will encounter in a statistics course are included.The notation used in the formulas is clear and straightforward.The treatment of p-values and multiple regression analysis is the best exposition to be found among current introductory/intermediate texts .I have taught 4-5,000 students statistics at the introductory,intermediate,and graduate level.I highly recommend this book for anyone taking an introductory to intermediate level course in statistics.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Undergraduate Statistics book available, July 11, 2000

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Alan Matthews (Bellevue , WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics (Hardcover)

As an undergraduate and graduate statistics faculty, I have read and taught from many different statistics books (at least a dozen by a quick count). This book by Mason, et.al. is superior to all and far superior to many (including many texts used for graduate business statistics).

It is clearly written, well organized, and does not use up a lot of space with massive amounts of output from statistics packages that one will not use outside of the classroom.

I have recommended it many times to students as an alternate to the extant class textbook, for all of the graduate and undergraduate business statistics classes that I teach.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Clearly the best for undergraduate students, July 30, 2000

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James Boyd (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics (Hardcover)

I have never been interested in reading a statistic textbook,simply because most of them are boring and totally confusing, but AIMR recommended this book as the official reading for year 1999.

When I have a copy of this book for my study, I was surprised. The book explains many statistic concepts in clear, plain English without many confusing terms. It describes the concepts step by steps, coupled with many interesting examples.

So far the best statistic textbook I've ever read. It is good for undergraduate, but I believe it is good for graduate students too.