Applied Statistics in Business & Economics with Student CD (McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series, Operations and Decision Sciences) [Hardcover]

David Doane (Author), Lori Seward (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 22, 2008 | ISBN-10: 0077214846 | ISBN-13: 978-0077214845 | Edition: 2

Applied Statistics in Business & Economics 2e provides a comprehensive introduction to Statistics concepts and applications in business and economics. The text and Student CD provide state of the art integration of technology in order to focus on the important practical concepts and applications as opposed to mechanics.

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David P. Doane is Professor of Quantitative Methods in Oakland University's Department of Decision and Information Sciences. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and economics at the University of Kansas in 1966 and his PhD from Purdue University's Krannert Graduate School in 1969. His research and teaching interests include applied statistics, forecasting, and statistical education. He is co-recipient of three National Science Foundation grants to develop software to teach statistics and to create a computer classroom. He is a long-time member of the American Statistical Association and INFORMS, serving in 2002 as President of the Detroit ASA chapter, where he remains on the board. He has consulted with government, health care organizations, and local firms. He has published articles in many academic journals and is the author of LearningStats (McGraw-Hill, 2003, 2007) and co-author of Visual Statistics (McGraw-Hill, 1997, 2001).

Lori E. Seward is a Senior Instructor of Systems in the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado—Boulder. She earned her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Industrial Engineering at Virginia Tech in 1984 and 1985. After several years working as a reliability and quality engineer in the paper and automotive industries she earned her PhD from Virginia Tech in 1998. She joined the Leeds faculty in 1998. Her teaching interests include applied statistics, quality management, and supply chain management and she has taken the lead in using advanced technology tools for enhancing the classroom and learning experience in large lecture courses. She served as the Chair of the INFORMS Teachers'Workshop for the annual 2004 meeting. Her most recent article was published in The InternationalJournal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 834 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 2 edition (January 22, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0077214846
• ISBN-13: 978-0077214845
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.6 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #551,221 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Thanks!, December 24, 2011

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This textbook was received on time in the condition listed. No major damage, although it was clearly used. Thanks for getting it to me quickly and efficiently!

4.0 out of 5 stars Book Exercises are great, but Concepts and Intituitive Ideas . . .mmm, July 18, 2011

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This review is from: Applied Statistics in Business and Economics (The Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin Series, Operations and Decision Sciences) (Hardcover)

Examples and exercises are great, thanks God I had a good professor who had great knowledge and really knows how to teach. Otherwise I would also have been lost in this pain in the neck.

I'm not bad at math, I have reach until multivariate-calculus, some classmates had trouble, but I didn't with the numbers, I just had problems with some readings of a paragraph, Overral is a nice book.

ohh . . . THE CD IS MISSING by the way, if you need the CD for megastat app, look for it online, as well as the powerpoint slides.

(to look for the slides, just go to the 2nd edition website: (...)

5.0 out of 5 stars Prompt & excellent service, September 14, 2010

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