Statistics for Managers Using Microsoft Excel (2nd Edition) [Hardcover]

David M. Levine (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0130203122 | ISBN-13: 978-0130203120 | Publication Date: February 15, 1999 | Edition: 2nd

For a one- or two-term course in Business Statistics at the undergraduate or graduate level. Thoroughly integrating the use of Microsoft Excel, this streamlined text on business statistics uses an applied approach that focuses on the concepts and applications of statistics to the functional areas of business-accounting, marketing, management, and economics and finance. Revised to increase the emphasis on concepts and applications and to more seamlessly integrate coverage on Microsoft Excel, it offers detailed, step-by-step explanations on the use of Microsoft Excel to perform statistical analysis on every topic covered in the book and integrates numerous illustrations of Excel output and dialog boxes.

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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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Updating instructions to Excel 97, this hands-on guide provides an integration of statistical analysis with the spreadsheet application software Microsoft Excel, offering step-by-step, detailed coverage of the use of this powerful software for every statistical topic covered in the book. Includes numerous illustrations of Excel output throughout the chapters and many Excel dialog boxes to help guide users through the use of Microsoft Excel for statistical analysis, and contains a supplementary tutorial chapter "Using Microsoft Excel for Statistical Analysis". Focuses on the concepts and applications of statistics to the functional areas of business, i.e., accounting, economics and finance, management, and marketing, and features a multitude of problems, case studies, and team projects. Now opens each chapter with a "Using Statistics Business" scenario - an example that illustrates the use of at least one of the statistical methods covered in the chapter in accounting, finance, management, or marketing. Also offers additional coverage of multiple regression, includes a new chapter on decision making, and examines a variety of important business applications, including principles of graphical excellence, sampling in auditing, and the application of the covariance in finance. A running Springville Herald case provides an integrated theme.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 1152 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2nd edition (February 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130203122
• ISBN-13: 978-0130203120
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,698,208 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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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.