Practical Business Statistics (Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin Series Operations and Decision Sciences) |  | Author: Andrew F. Siegel
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Category: Book
Buy Used: $80.00
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 1745614
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 5th
Pages: 854
Number Of Items: 1
ISBN: 0071198938
Dewey Decimal Number: 519.502465
EAN: 9780071198936
ASIN: 0071198938
Publication Date: September 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: INTERNATIONAL EDITION!!!...Unmarked, strong binding, light cover wear.
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Product Description
This text was written in response to instructors not wanting a formula driven, mathematically encyclopedic book. The use of computer applications means some topics no longer require coverage in detail. This allows the concepts and applications useful to a business manager to be emphasized. The text does this by using examples with real data that relate to the functional areas of business such as finance, accounting, and marketing. It de-emphasizes the theoretical, and presents the material in a well-written, easy style designed to motivate students. The emphasis is on understanding and applications as opposed to mathematical precision and formula detail.
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 Missing item September 5, 2008
C. Becker
The book is great and definitely saved money buying used. However, my book is missing the student CD-ROM which I need for class. That was disappointing.
 Great Computer-Based Examples, Just Okay Otherwise December 29, 2006
wildcatgoal (Chicago, IL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book does a great job of teaching you how to do statistical computations using StatPad and MS Excel. But, it is not very good at describing fundamentals. It left students in my MBA program who haven't takin' stats for a long time lost. I understand it is generally used by business schools, particularly MBAs.
One thing this book has over any stats book that I've used is: a friggin' TON of practice questions. It will boggle your mind and, if you do them, you'll know stats like the back of your hand.
 Good and gentle introduction to statistics April 5, 2006
Nimrod Hoofien (Seattle, WA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Prof. Siegel's book is a great introductory text for business graduates with little prior exposure to statistics. The text covers many of the basic topics in statistics and ties them nicely to real world cases and problems.
The book starts with a description of the basic constructs of statistics - data sets, distributions, and variability. IT follows with an introduction to probability and covers random variables. The text continues to cover statistical inference, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing. Finally the book gets to regression and time series analysis and demonstrates several applications of the techniques covered.
The book comes with a CD that contains lecture presentations (very useful), all the data sets in the books (saves you typing), and an excel add-on called StatPad that provides many useful statistical tools.
Overall I think that this text is a good choice for MBA students and business professionals with little background in statistics. It is very user-friendly and is well grounded in business.
 Mediocre. June 1, 2003
Gaetan Lion
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is not the best book on the subject. There are many other superior books to this one. I still keep it around as a descent reference on statistics, and occasionally get something out of it.
The review of Practical Business Statistics August 29, 2000
Saureen
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
It's a very good book because of the way it divulges you into the real world. If you are interested in learning business and business statistics, what better place to learn it than the real world.
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