Managerial Statistics

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

• ISBN13: 9780534349813
• ISBN10: 0534349811
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-29
• Publisher: South-Western College Pub

Summary

Provides a proven example-driven, spreadsheet- based approach. Emphasizes the analysis of data and the interpretation of important information to base important decisions in business. DLC: Managerial--Statistical methods.

Author Biography

S. Christian Albright Chris Albright got 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 Wayne Winston Wayne L. Winston is Professor of Operations and Decision Technologies in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, where he has taught since 1975. Wayne received his B.S. degree in mathematics from MIT and his Ph.D. degree in operations research from Yale Christopher J. Zappe Chris earned his B.A. in mathematics from DePauw University in 1983 and his M.B.A. and Ph.D. in decision sciences from Indiana University in 1987 and 1988, respectively. Since 1993, Chris has been serving as an associate professor in the Department of Management at Bucknell University, where he teaches undergraduate courses in business statistics, decision analysis, and computer simulation. Currently, Chris is a visiting faculty member in the Operations and Decision Technologies Department of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in Bloomington

Table of Contents

Introduction to Managerial Statistics	2	(22)
Describing Data: Graphs and Tables	24	(48)
Describing Data: Summary Measures	72	(52)
Getting the Right Data in Excel	124	(54)
Probability and Probability Distributions	178	(64)
Normal, Binomial, and Poisson Distributions	242	(56)
Decision Making Under Uncertainty	298	(78)
Sampling and Sampling Distributions	376	(46)
Confidence Interval Estimation	422	(64)
Hypothesis Testing	486	(60)
Statistical Process Control	546	(62)
Analysis of Variance and Experimental Design	608	(46)
Regression Analysis: Estimating Relationships	654	(68)
Regression Analysis: Statistical Inference	722	(75)
Discriminant Analysis and Logistic Regression	797	(39)
Time Series Analysis and Forecasting	836	(70)
Statistical Reporting	906	(20)
References	926	(3)
Index	929