Statistics for Managers Using Microsoft Excel (Updated Version) [Paperback]

David M. Levine (Author), Mark L. Berenson (Author), David Stephan (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0130950718 | ISBN-13: 978-0130950710 | Publication Date: November 24, 1997 | Edition: 1

Designed for either one-semester or two-semester introductory business statistics course at the undergraduate or graduate level. This is the first business statistics text designed specifically to use Microsoft Excel as a means of teaching statistical business applications. Provides streamlined coverage of a range of statistical topics with a managerial focus. The UPDATED VERSION will contain: 1.) a new chapter on Decision Analysis (Ch. 14); 2.) Excel 97 (8.0) supplement - this supplement consists of four parts; 3.) A disk which contains fully developed Excel worksheets for all Excel examples/problems in the book. These are all ready-to-use and completely documented. PLUS, we have enhanced the text with 18 of the most commonly used worksheets which have been automated. This allows the user to solve examples/problems of any size all with the click of a button.

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This is the first business text designed specifically to use Microsoft Excel as a means of teaching statistical business applications. Provides streamlined coverage of a range of statistical topics with a managerial focus. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Key Benefit: This is the first business statistics book designed specifically to use Microsoft Excel as a means of teaching statistical business applications. Key Topics: This book begins with a comprehensive tutorial chapter on Getting Started in Microsoft Excel following the introductory chapter. There are a large number and variety of problems including many with “action,” “what if,” and “light bulb” problems, case studies, chapter ending summary flow charts, discussion of ethical issues, and collaborative learning exercises intended to develop the reader's communication and critical thinking skills. The book comes with a diskette containing Excel workbooks for all examples discussed. Each workbook contains all the necessary steps, data, and Excel calculations needed for the example. Market: For business managers and students new to statistics in an Excel environment.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 880 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall, Inc.; 1 edition (November 24, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130950718
• ISBN-13: 978-0130950710
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,033,028 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Is this really an EXCEL based book?, June 3, 2000

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Akram Najjar (Beirut, Lebanon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Statistics for Managers Using Microsoft Excel (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)

While I used the first edition of this book (1997) with delight and great admiration, I was disappointed when I bought the second edition (1999). The main reason was that the authors had indicated in a small top right hand corner on the cover that the book uses PHSTAT as an an Excel Add In. (Not very useful for online purchases). Amazon mentioned PHSTAT in one review as an "Add In included on the CD", ie, it seemed optional. The examples solved in the 1st edition used native Excel methods. In edition 2, they were solved using PHSTAT. All screen captures, worksheets, etc, were in PHSTAT. If one does not wish to use PHSTAT, the second edition would not be useful at all. It would have been leading (Opposite of misleading) to entitle the book "Statistics for Managers Using PHSTAT, an Excel Add In". I am hence confused about the number of stars : first edition : 5 and second edition only 1.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource for beginning to intermediate stats, October 2, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Statistics for Managers Using Microsoft Excel (Updated Version) (Paperback)

I used this book in a first year MBA program and found it a great resource. Stat freaks complain that Excel is not SPSS - true! But many many more business people have access to Excel, along with a reasonable ability to do FAST basic statistics.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nothing to do with Excel or How To, July 10, 2001

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Richard Woods "rpwoods" (Ventura, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Statistics for Managers Using Microsoft Excel (Student Solutions Manual) (Paperback)

Don't let the title mislead you: Statistics for Managers Using Microsoft Excel (Student Solutions Manual) has almost nothing to do with Microsoft Excel. This book is useful IF and only if you are using it as a companion to the Statistics for Managers Using Microsoft Excel text book in a statistics class.

The book provides ANSWERS. It does not provide any how-to; it does not provide any Excel formulas/etc. But is does provide the answers to all of the even-numbers problems in the companion text book. That's the only reason it got as much as a "3 stars" rating from me -- it was helpful for feedback.