Data Analysis and Decision Making with Microsoft Excel, Revised (Book Only) - Hardcover

Albright, S. Christian; Winston, Wayne; Zappe, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0324662475 ISBN 13: 9780324662474

Publisher: South-Western College Pub, 2008

Synopsis

Master data analysis, modeling, and spreadsheet use with DATA ANALYSIS AND DECISION MAKING WITH MICROSOFT EXCEL! With a teach-by-example approach, student-friendly writing style, and complete Excel integration, this quantitative methods text provides you with the tools you need to succeed. Margin notes, boxed-in definitions and formulas in the text, enhanced explanations in the text itself, and stated objectives for the examples found throughout the text make studying easy. Problem sets and cases provide realistic examples that enable you to see the relevance of the material to your future as a business leader. The CD-ROMs packaged with every new book include the following add-ins: the Palisade Decision Tools Suite (@RISK, StatTools, PrecisionTree, TopRank, and RISKOptimizer); and SolverTable, which allows you to do sensitivity analysis. All of these add-ins have been revised for Excel 2007.

About this title

About the Author

S. Christian Albright received his B.S. degree in mathematics from Stanford in 1968 and his Ph.D. in operations research from Stanford in 1972. Since then, he has been teaching in the Operations and Decision Technologies Department in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He has taught courses in management science, computer simulation, and statistics to all levels of business students: undergraduates, MBAs, and doctoral students. He has published over twenty articles in leading operations research journals in the area of applied probability, and he has authored other successful South-Western titles, including DATA ANALYSIS AND DECISION MAKING, DATA ANALYSIS FOR MANAGERS, PRACTICAL MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, and SPREADSHEET MODELING AND APPLICATIONS. His current interest is in spreadsheet modeling, including development of VBA applications in Excel®.

Review

"I want to commend you and your colleagues on Data Analysis and Decision Making.That textbook is one of the most well organized, well written and usefulbooks I have used in either undergraduate or graduate studies. Any questionI had while going through the course was easy to find and well answered.The use of Excel and Palisades tools was excellent.Thank you for taking the time and effort to publish such a great reference.It will surely be on my bookshelf for many years."

Edition details

• Publisher: South-Western College Pub
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0324662475
• ISBN 13: 9780324662474
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 1104