TY - BOOK AU - Albright,S.Christian AU - Winston,Wayne L. AU - Zappe,Christopher J. AU - Albright,S.Christian TI - Data Analysis for Managers with Microsoft Excel SN - 0534383661 AV - HD30.215 .A373 2004 PY - 2004/// CY - Belmont, CA PB - Thomson/Brooks/Cole KW - Microsoft Excel (Computer file) KW - Industrial management KW - Statistical methods KW - Computer programs KW - Decision making N1 - Rev. ed. of Managerial statistics. 1st ed. 1990; CD-ROM includes latest version of Stat Pro and Decision Tools; Includes bibliographical references (p. 943-945) and index; Introduction to Data Analysis for Managers. Part I Getting, Describing and Summarizing Data: Describing Data - Graphs and Tables; Describing Data - Summary Measures; Getting the Right Data. Part II Probability, Uncertainty and Decision Making: Probability and Probability Distributions; Normal, Binomial, Poisson and Exponential Distributions; Decision Making Under Uncertainty. Part III Statistical Inference: Sampling and Sampling Distributions; Confidence Interval Estimation; Hypothesis Testing. Part IV Regression, Forecasting and Time Series: Regression Analysis - Estimating Relationships; Regression Analysis - Statistical Inference; Time Series Analysis and Forecasting. Part V Other Statistical Tools: Analysis of Variance and Experimental Design; Data Mining Techniques: Discriminant Analysis, Logistic Regression and OLAP; Statistical Process Control. Appendix: Statistical Reporting N2 - Presenting core statistical methods in a modern, unified spreadsheet-oriented approach, this text focuses on applications to business. It illustrates a variety of statistical methods to help students analyse data sets and uncover important information to aid decision-making ER -