Product Description
This book covers the basic concepts of business statistics and data analysis integrated in a contemporary spreadsheet environment. The authors emphasize practical applications and business decision-making. A concise approach covers the essential topics including displaying and summarizing data, random variables and probability distributions, sampling and statistical inference, regression analysis, forecasting, statistical quality control, and risk analysis and Monte-Carlo simulation. For an understanding of business statistics and how to solve business problems related to this subject matter.
From the Back Cover
This concise text covers the basic concepts of business statistics and data analysis in a contemporary spreadsheet environment. The author emphasizes practical applications of the approaches to business decision making. Some of the text highlights include:
- Concise approachThis book integrates fundamental concepts of business statistics and decision-making in eight chapters. The author takes a practical, nonmathematical approach.
- Practical applicationsA comprehensive database, using marketing, finance, and production data, is used throughout the text to give students hands-on experience in analyzing data for practical decisions.
- Spreadsheet emphasisThe emphasis is on using spreadsheets for data analysis and decision modeling. The book features Excel and the Excel add-ins: PHStat and the student edition of Crystal Ball Professional 2000.
About the CD-ROM
EVERY NEW COPY OF THIS TEXTBOOK IS PACKAGED WITH A CD-ROM CONTAINING SOFTWARE ESSENTIAL FOR THIS COURSE:
- PHStat2Spreadsheet add-in for statistics
- Crystal BallSpreadsheet add-in for simulation and risk analysis
This free CD-ROM also contains all of the Excel files required for many of the examples in this text.