Statistics, Data Analysis, and Decision Modeling

This concise text covers the basic concepts of business statistics, data analysis, and management science in a contemporary spreadsheet environment. The authors emphasize practical applications of the approaches to business decision making. Some of-the text highlights include:

• Concise approach—This book integrates fundamental concepts of business statistics and decision models in twelve chapters. The authors take a practical, nonmathematical approach.
• Practical applications—A 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 emphasis—The emphasis is on using spreadsheets for data analysis and decision modeling. The book features Excel and the Excel add-ins: PHStat, student version of Crystal Ball, and TreePlan.

EVERY NEW COPY OF THIS TEXTBOOK IS PACKAGED WITH A CD-ROM CONTAINING SOFTWARE ESSENTIAL FOR THIS COURSE:

• Premium Solver
• Crystal Ball—Spreadsheet add-in for simulation and risk analysis
• TreePlan—Used in chapter 8
• PHStat2Spreadsheet add—in for statistics

This free CD-ROM also contains all of the Excel files required for many of the examples in this text.