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Doing Statistics for Business with Excel: Data, Inference, and Decision Making, 2nd Edition
Marilyn K. Pelosi,
Western New England College, Springfield, Massachusetts
Theresa M. Sandifer,
Southern Connecticut State Univ., New Haven, Connecticut
ISBN: 978-0-471-40829-1
©2002
912 pages
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Hallmark Features
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Learn By Trying:
- Try It Now! Exercises are checkpoints embedded in the text to make sure students understand the basics before moving on.
Learn By Practicing:
- Learning It! Exercises allow students to practice the basics of computation and include all the techniques covered in the chapter.
- Thinking About It! Exercises emphasize critical thought and ask students to interpret the results of statistical techniques and make decisions based on their analysis.
- Doing It! Exercises are large real-world data sets and ask students to perform statistical analyses and interpret them to solve a real problem. As students progress in their statistical thinking, these exercises will help them to make judgements about "what to do next." The data sets are provided in electronic format.
Learn By Using the Computer: The final section in each chapter in the text describes how to implement the techniques taught in the chapter in Excel. Appendix C is a short introduction to Excel for those students who are not familiar with it.
Learn By Discovery: Within most of the chapters, students will find Discovery Exercises. These exercises are written to achieve a high level of student understanding by directing their linke of thinking, leading to an "a-ha" discovery of a key concept. They are designed to help students see that statistical thinking is logical and that the formulas make sense when students discover where they came from and see why they work.
Learn By Making Your Case: This feature takes an overall look at the techniques learned throughout the course, and how the tools can be used in a systematic way to solve real business problems. Afterall, in the "real world" this is exactly the way it works. These cases are all found in the final chapter entitled "Making Your Case." However, these cases can be used before the end of the book is reached. Each case references the appropriate chapter.
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