Statistics for Managers, Using Microsoft Excel (Paperback)  | Released: 30-Jun-17

As Business Statistics evolves and becomes an increasingly important part of oneșs business education, how business statistics gets taught and what gets taught becomes all the more important. Th eighth edition of Statistics for Managers Using Microsoft Excel encompasses ways to help students see the relevance of statistics in their own careers and acquaint them with the various tools that will enable them to apply statistics in their professional domains. Features First Things First Chapter: This new chapter provides an orientation that helps students understand the importance of business statistics and get ready to use Microsoft Excel even before they obtain a full copy of this bookGetting Ready to Analyze Data in the Future: This newly expanded version of Chapter 17 adds a second Using Statistics scenario that serves as an introduction to business analytics methods. That introduction, inturn, explains several advanced Excel features while familiarizing students with the fundamental concepts and vocabulary of business analytics.Expanded Excel Coverage: Workbook instructions replace the In-Depth Excel instructions in the Excel Guides and discuss more fully OS X Excel (ȜExcel for Macȝ) di erences when they occur. In the Worksheet Notes that help explain the worksheet illustrations that in-chapter examples use as model solutionsMany More Exhibits: Stand-alone summaries of important procedures that serve as a review of chapter passages. Exhibits range from identifying best practices, such ȜBest Practices for Creating Visualizationsȝ in Chapter 2, to serving as guides to data analysis such as the pair of ȜQuestions to Askȝ exhibits in Chapter 17.New Visual Design: This edition uses a new visual design that better organizes the chapter content and provides a more uncluttered, streamline presentationTable of ContentsFirst Things First 11 Defining and Collecting Data 122 Organizing and Visualizing Variables 323 Numerical Descriptive Measures 954 Basic Probability 1415 Discrete Probability Distributions 1666 The Normal Distribution and Other Continuous Distributions 1897 Sampling Distributions 2168 Confidence Interval Estimation 2379 Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing: One-Sample Tests 271 Two-Sample Tests 3711 Analysis of Variance 34812 Chi-Square Tests and Nonparametric Tests 38613 Simple Linear Regression 42714 Introduction to Multiple Regression 47515 Multiple Regression Model Building 52116 Time-Series Forecasting 55317 Getting Ready To Analyze Data In The Future 59818 Statistical Applications in Quality Management (online) 18-119 Decision Making (online) 19-1.