In the competitive world of business, effective decision making is crucial. To help you stand out from the crowd, Robert Stine and Dean Foster of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania have written an exciting new book for business statistics. This book teaches you how to use data to make informed decisions; every chapter highlights issues in the modern business world. The authors provide strong connections between the statistical concepts in the text and the problems you will face in your future careers, showing you how to find patterns, create statistical models from the data, and deliver your findings to an audience.

Statistics for Business: Decision Making and Analysis

Business & Money

Robert A. Stine

Dean P. Foster

Management & Leadership

Pearson

Preface Statistics is seldom the most eagerly anticipated course of a business student. It typically has the reputation ofbeing aboring, complicated, and confusing mix of mathematical formulas and computers. Our goal in writing this casebook and the companion volume (Basic Business Statistics) was to change that impression by showing how statistics gives insights and answers interesting business questions. Rather than dwell on underlying formulas, we show how to use statistics to answer questions. Each case study begins with a business question and concludes with an answer. Formulas appear only as needed to address the questions, and we focus on the insights into the problem provided by the mathematics. The mathematics serves a purpose. The material is organized into 12 "classes" of related case studies that develop a single, key idea of statistics. The analysis of data using statistics is seldom very straightforward, and each analysis has many nuances. Part ofthe appeal ofstatistics is this richness, this blending of substantive theories and mathematics. For a newcomer, however, this blend is too rich and they are easily overwhelmed and unable to sort out the important ideas from nuances. Although later cases in these notes suggest this complexity, we do not begin that way. Each class has one main idea, something big like standard error. We begin a class by discussing an application chosen to motivate this key concept, and introduce the necessary terminology.

Business Analysis Using Regression: A Casebook

Richard P. Waterman

Education & Reference

Springer

his pocket manual succinctly summarizes the do's and dont's in management of every type of trauma. The manual is a condensed, portable version of Management of Trauma: Pitfalls and Practice, Second Edition, and is designed for rapid, at-a-glance reference. Chapters cover all types of trauma, including adult, pediatric, blunt, and penetrating trauma, as well as surgical critical care. Each page has highlighted Axioms and Pitfalls, and each chapter ends with lists of Frequent Errors and Summary Points. A detailed index helps readers find information quickly

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