Business Statistics: A First Course, Canadian Edition - Softcover

Norean D. Sharpe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0134397746 ISBN 13: 9780134397740

Publisher: Pearson Canada, 2017

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Business Statistics: A First Course, Second Canadian Edition, recognizes both the changing curriculum and the changing pedagogy for teaching introductory statistics. It focuses on application, streamlines and reorganizes topics, sheds unneeded theoretical details, and recognizes learning styles of the current generation of students, making it an attractive choice for one-semester Business Statistics courses at Canadian universities and colleges.

 

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About the Author

Norean R. Sharpe, PhD, is Dean and the Joseph H. and Maria C. Schwartz Distinguished Chair at The Peter J. Tobin College of Business at St. John's University. As the chief academic officer of the Tobin College of Business, she is responsible for the curriculum for 2500 undergraduate business majors and 600 graduate students in one of seven MS/MBA programs, all supported by more than 150 faculty and staff on the Manhattan; Queens; Staten Island; and Rome, Italy campuses. Within the Tobin College is the Center for Enterprise Risk Management, the Applied Finance Institute, and the Global Business Stewardship Center, as well as the acclaimed School of Risk Management, Insurance, and Actuarial Science.

Dr. Sharpe is an accomplished scholar, with 30 years of teaching experience at Yale University, Bowdoin College, Babson College, and Georgetown University -- and with more than 30 scholarly publications in analytics and statistics education. Her research interests include time series analysis, forecasting, analytics, and women's roles in entrepreneurship in the Middle East. Dr. Sharpe earned her BA from Mt. Holyoke College, her MS from the University of North Carolina, and her PhD in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia.

Richard D. De Veaux is an internationally known educator and consultant. He has taught at the Wharton School and the Princeton University School of Engineering, where he won a “Lifetime Award for Dedication and Excellence in Teaching.” He is the C. Carlisle and M. Tippit Professor of Statistics at Williams College, where he has taught since 1994. Dick has won both the Wilcoxon and Shewell awards from the American Society for Quality. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). In 2008, he was named Statistician of the Year by the Boston Chapter of the ASA. Dick is also well known in industry, where for more than 30 years he has consulted for such Fortune 500 companies as American Express, Hewlett-Packard, Alcoa, DuPont, Pillsbury, General Electric, and Chemical Bank. Because he consulted with Mickey Hart on his book Planet Drum, he has also sometimes been called the “Official Statistician for the Grateful Dead.” His real-world experiences and anecdotes illustrate many of this book's chapters.

Paul F. Velleman has an international reputation for innovative Statistics education. He is the author and designer of the multimedia Statistics program ActivStats, for which he was awarded the EDUCOM Medal for innovative uses of computers in teaching statistics, and the ICTCM Award for Innovation in Using Technology in College Mathematics. He also developed the award-winning statistics program Data Desk, and the Internet site Data and Story Library (DASL) (ASL.datadesk.com), which provides data sets for teaching Statistics. Paul's understanding of using and teaching with technology informs much of this book's approach.

For the past 30 years Jonathan Berkowitz (Ph.D. University of Toronto) has had a full-time practice as a consulting statistician as president of the aptly named Berkowitz & Associates Consulting Inc. But Jonathan leads a double life, because he is also a full-time instructor with the Sauder School of Business and an Associate Member of the Department of Family Practice (Faculty of Medicine), both at the University of British Columbia. Jonathan is recognized as an outstanding teacher, having won the Killam Teaching Prize for undergraduate teaching and CGA Graduate Master Teacher Award for MBA teaching, both at the Sauder School, as well as many awards and commendations from students. In addition, he teaches short courses and workshops for a number of public and private sector groups. His passion for teaching also extends to younger audiences, regularly performing shows on math magic, word games, and puzzles in school classrooms. In his consulting life, Jonathan has been involved in a wide range of collaborative and interdisciplinary research in health care and medical research, social science, engineering, biotechnology, transportation, law, management consulting, market research, and accounting. His clients enthusiastically describe him as a “user friendly” statistician! He has contributed to numerous successful research grant applications, and has co-written many peer-reviewed journal articles and other publications. He has also helped more than 100 graduate students complete their degrees. While numbers are his vocation, words are his avocation. A passion for puzzles, word games, and puns infiltrates all aspects of his life, including the classroom. He is an active member of the National Puzzlers' League, and for six years was the puzzle composer and editor for the American Statistical Association's CHANCE magazine. Jonathan and his wife have two children, both of whom graduated from Canadian business schools and have careers in quantitative fields, a classic illustration of the power of both nature and nurture.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson Canada
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0134397746
• ISBN 13: 9780134397740
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 736