Applied Statistics: Improving Business Processes (The Irwin Series in Statistics) - Hardcover

Bowerman, Bruce; O'Connell, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 025619386X ISBN 13: 9780256193862

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 1997

Synopsis

This text focuses on improving business processes by using all the important statistical techniques needed to facilitate effective decision making. The text follows a traditional approach and topic organization that is appropriate for most introductory business statistics courses, but also incorporates a more modern approach that infuses quality and emphasizes process improvement throughout. The authors' highest priority is developing a text that offers clear and understandable explanations of concepts and providing case studies and examples that reflect real applications of statistics today.

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From the Publisher:

Infusion of quality and improvement throughout, including two full chapters on quality and one on design of experiments.
Numerous practical case studies (30) and examples that frequently use real data and illustrate real application of concepts. These are often revisited and built upon throughout the text to provide continuity not found in most statistics texts.
Content innovations that should help to make statistics easier for students to understand. These include the use of P values and rejection points in hypothesis testing, strong emphasis on forecasting and regression including modeling, early introduction of confidence intervals, clear coverage of probability and probability distributions and realistic presentation of inferential topics.
Chapter opener photos, over 400 color graphics and printouts from statistical software programs.

About the Author:

Bruce L. Bowerman is professor of decision sciences at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He received his Ph.D. degree in statistics from Iowa State University in 1974, and he has over 40 years of experience teaching basic statistics, regression analysis, time series forecasting, survey sampling, and design of experiments to both undergraduate and graduate students. In 1987, Professor Bowerman received an Outstanding Teaching award from the Miami University senior class, and in 1992 he received an Effective Educator award from the Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration. Together with Richard T. OConnell, Professor Bowerman has written 16 textbooks. These include Forecasting and Time Series: An Applied Approach; Forecasting, Time Series, and Regression: An Applied Approach (also coauthored with Anne B. Koehler); and Linear Statistical Models: An Applied Approach. The fi rst edition of Forecasting and Time Series earned an Outstanding Academic Book award from Choice magazine. Professor Bowerman has also published a number of articles in applied stochastic processes, time series forecasting, and statistical education. In his spare time, Professor Bowerman enjoys watching movies and sports, playing tennis, and designing houses.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 025619386X
• ISBN 13: 9780256193862
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1273