Working With Sample Data: Exploration and Inference (AGENCY/DISTRIBUTED) - Softcover

Priscilla Chaffe-Stengel (author) & Donald N. Stengel (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1606492136 ISBN 13: 9781606492130

Publisher: Business Expert Press, 2011

Synopsis

Managers and analysts routinely collect and examine key performance measures to better understand their operations and make good decisions. Being able to render the complexity of operations data into a coherent account of significant events requires an understanding of how to work well with raw data and to make appropriate inferences. Although some statistical techniques for analyzing data and making inferences are sophisticated and require specialized expertise, there are methods that are understandable and applicable by anyone with basic algebra skills and the support of a spreadsheet package. By applying these fundamental methods themselves rather than turning over both the data and the responsibility for analysis and interpretation to an expert, managers will develop a richer understanding and potentially gain better control over their environment. This text is intended to describe these fundamental statistical techniques to managers, data analysts, and students. Statistical analysis of sample data is enhanced by the use of computers. Spreadsheet software is well suited for the methods discussed in this text. Examples in the text apply Microsoft Excel. Readers will have access to the example workbooks and Adobe Flash videos illustrating key steps using Microsoft Excel from the Business Expert Press website.

About this title

About the Author

Priscilla Chaffe-Stengel, Professor of Information Systems and Decision Sciences, California State University, Fresno, California, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Business Expert Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1606492136
• ISBN 13: 9781606492130
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 162