Books : Practical Business Statistics (Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin Series Operations and Decision Sciences)
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by: Andrew F. Siegel
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 519.502465
EAN: 9780072499056
ISBN: 0072499052
Label: McGraw-Hill Companies
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 854
Publication Date: 2002-12
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Sales Rank: 747555
Studio: McGraw-Hill Companies
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Product Description:
This text was written in response to instructors not wanting a formula driven, mathematically encyclopedic book. The use of computer applications means some topics no longer require coverage in detail. This allows the concepts and applications useful to a business manager to be emphasized. The text does this by using examples with real data that relate to the functional areas of business such as finance, accounting, and marketing. It de-emphasizes the theoretical, and presents the material in a well-written, easy style designed to motivate students. The emphasis is on understanding and applications as opposed to mathematical precision and formula detail.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Missing item
The book is great and definitely saved money buying used. However, my book is missing the student CD-ROM which I need for class. That was disappointing.
Rating:  - Great Computer-Based Examples, Just Okay Otherwise
This book does a great job of teaching you how to do statistical computations using StatPad and MS Excel. But, it is not very good at describing fundamentals. It left students in my MBA program who haven't takin' stats for a long time lost. I understand it is generally used by business schools, particularly MBAs.
One thing this book has over any stats book that I've used is: a friggin' TON of practice questions. It will boggle your mind and, if you do them, you'll know stats like ... Read More
Rating:  - Good and gentle introduction to statistics
Prof. Siegel's book is a great introductory text for business graduates with little prior exposure to statistics. The text covers many of the basic topics in statistics and ties them nicely to real world cases and problems.
The book starts with a description of the basic constructs of statistics - data sets, distributions, and variability. IT follows with an introduction to probability and covers random variables. The text continues to cover statistical inference, confidence intervals, ... Read More
Rating:  - Mediocre.
This is not the best book on the subject. There are many other superior books to this one. I still keep it around as a descent reference on statistics, and occasionally get something out of it.
Rating: - The review of Practical Business Statistics
It's a very good book because of the way it divulges you into the real world. If you are interested in learning business and business statistics, what better place to learn it than the real world.
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