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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460713103321

Autore

John J. A.

Titolo

Statistical thinking in business / / by J. A. John, D. Whitaker and D.G. Johnson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Chapman and Hall/CRC, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , 2005

ISBN

0-429-12349-3

1-4200-5716-2

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 p.)

Disciplina

658.4/033

Soggetti

Mathematical statistics

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management Science

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Chapter 1. Variation; Chapter 2. Problem Solving; Chapter 3. Looking at Data; Chapter 4. Modelling Data; Chapter 5. Attribute Data; Chapter 6. Sampling; Chapter 7. Estimation; Chapter 8. Regression Analysis; Chapter 9. Multiple Regression; Chapter 10. Forecasting; Chapter 11. Statistical Process Control; Chapter 12. Control Charts; Chapter 13. Improvement Strategies; Postscript; Appendix. Statistical Tables; Bibliography and Further Reading; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Business students need the ability to think statistically about how to deal with uncertainty and its effect on decision-making in business and management. Traditional statistics courses and textbooks tend to focus on probability, mathematical detail, and heavy computation, and thus fail to meet the needs of future managers. Statistical Thinking in Business, Second Edition responds to the growing recognition that we must change the way business statistics is taught. It shows how statistics is important in all aspects of business and equips students



with the skills they need to make sensible use of data and other information. The authors take an interactive, scenario-based approach and use almost no mathematical formulas, opting to use Excel for the technical work. This allows them to focus on using statistics to aid decision-making rather than how to perform routine calculations.New in the Second Edition.