Business analytics : data analysis and decision making /
S. Christian Albright and Wayne L. Winston
- 5th Edition
- Canada : Cengage Learning Asia Pte Ltd, c2015
- xviii, 990 pages : color illustrations, 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction to Business Analytics -- Part 1: EXPLORING DATA. -- 2. Describing the Distribution of a Single Variable. -- 3. Finding Relationships among Variables -- Part 2: PROBABILITY AND DECISION MAKING UNDER UNCERTAINTY -- 4. Probability and Probability Distributions -- 5. Normal, Binomial, Poisson, and Exponential Distributions -- 6. Decision Making under Uncertainty -- Part 3: STATISTICAL INFERENCE -- 7. Sampling and Sampling Distributions -- 8. Confidence Interval Estimation -- 9. Hypothesis Testing -- Part 4: REGRESSION ANALYSIS AND TIME SERIES FORECASTING -- 10. Regression Analysis: Estimating Relationships.11. Regression Analysis: Statistical Inference.12. Time Series Analysis and Forecasting -- Part 5: OPTIMIZATION AND SIMULATION MODELING -- 13. Introduction to Optimization Modeling -- 14. Optimization Models -- 15. Introduction to Simulation Modeling -- 16. Simulation Models -- Part 6: ADVANCED DATA ANALYSIS -- 17. Data Mining -- Part 7: BONUS ONLINE MATERIAL -- 18. Importing Data into Excel -- 19. Analysis of Variance and Experimental Design -- 20. Statistical Process Control -- Appendix A: Statistical Reporting.
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