Basic Statistical Thinking for Managers - Hardcover

Hildebrand, David; Ott, R. Lyman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0534255248 ISBN 13: 9780534255244

Publisher: Duxbury Press, 1995

Synopsis

Placing emphasis on data and the common techniques and methods used to analyze them in business, this work introduces concepts using practical examples, illustrating them with computer output from Minitab, Systat, Execustat, Excel and other software packages.

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Review

"This book is excellent overall in terms of topics covered, clarity and organization, reasonable brevity (necessary for shorter courses), great examples of statistical output from a many different types of statistical software, and the degree to which it illustrates a wide range of business applications. It also serves as a great reference for students after the introductory course is over. I think it superior to its competitors on these dimensions."

"What do you view to be the three key strengths of the text? Its inclusion of a fair number of modeling problems, its math level (more mature than college algebra), and its coverage of regression."

About the Author

Lyman Ott earned his Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Education and Master's degree in Mathematics from Bucknell University, and Ph.D in Statistics from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. After two years working in statistics in the pharmaceutical industry, Dr. Ott became assistant professor in the Statistic Department at the University of Florida in 1968 and was named associate professor in 1972. He joined Merrell-National laboratories in 1975 as head of the Biostatistics Department and then head of the company's Research Data Center. He later became director of Biomedical Information Systems, Vice President of Global Systems and Quality Improvement in Research and Development, and Senior Vice President Business Process Improvement and Biometrics. He retired from the pharmaceutical industry in 1998, and now serves as consultant and Board of Advisors member for Abundance Technologies, Inc. Dr. Ott has published extensively in scientific journals and authored or co-authored seven college textbooks including Basic Statistical Ideas for Managers, Statistics: A Tool for the Social Sciences and An Introduction to Statistical Methods and Data Analysis. He has been a member of the Industrial Research Institute, the Drug Information Association and the Biometrics Society. In addition, he is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and received the Biostatistics Career Achievement Award from the Pharmaceutical research and Manufacturers of America in 1998. He was also an All-American soccer player in college and is a member of the Bucknell University Athletic Hall of Fame.

Edition details

• Publisher: Duxbury Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0534255248
• ISBN 13: 9780534255244
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 576