Download or read book Business Statistics for Competitive Advantage with Excel 2007 written by Cynthia Fraser and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-11-12 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exceptional managers know that they can create competitive advantages by basing decisions on performance response under alternative scenarios. To create these advantages, managers need to understand how to use statistics to provide information on performance response under alternative scenarios. Statistics are created to make better decisions. Statistics are essential and relevant. Statistics must be easily and quickly produced using widely available software, Excel. Then results must be translated into general business language and illustrated with compelling graphics to make them understandable and usable by decision makers. This book helps students master this process of using statistics to create competitive advantages as decision makers. Statistics are essential, relevant, easy to produce, easy to understand, valuable, and fun, when used to create competitive advantage. The Examples, Assignments, And Cases Used To Illustrate Statistics For Decision Making Come From Business Problems McIntire Corporate Sponsors and Partners, such as Rolls-Royce, Procter & Gamble, and Dell, and the industries that they do business in, provide many realistic examples. The book also features a number of examples of global business problems, including those from important emerging markets in China and India. It is exciting to see how statistics are used to improve decision making in real and important business decisions. This makes it easy to see how statistics can be used to create competitive advantages in similar applications in internships and careers. Learning Is Hands On With Excel and Shortcuts
Download or read book Statistical Analysis written by Conrad Carlberg and published by Que Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use Excel 2013’s statistical tools to transform your data into knowledge Conrad Carlberg shows how to use Excel 2013 to perform core statistical tasks every business professional, student, and researcher should master. Using real-world examples, Carlberg helps you choose the right technique for each problem and get the most out of Excel’s statistical features, including recently introduced consistency functions. Along the way, he clarifies confusing statistical terminology and helps you avoid common mistakes. You’ll learn how to use correlation and regression, analyze variance and covariance, and test statistical hypotheses using the normal, binomial, t, and F distributions. To help you make accurate inferences based on samples from a population, this edition adds two more chapters on inferential statistics, covering crucial topics ranging from experimental design to the statistical power of F tests. Becoming an expert with Excel statistics has never been easier! You’ll find crystal-clear instructions, insider insights, and complete step-by-step projects—all complemented by extensive web-based resources. Master Excel’s most useful descriptive and inferential statistical tools Tell the truth with statistics—and recognize when others don’t Accurately summarize sets of values Infer a population’s characteristics from a sample’s frequency distribution Explore correlation and regression to learn how variables move in tandem Use Excel consistency functions such as STDEV.S() and STDEV.P() Test differences between two means using z tests, t tests, and Excel’s Data Analysis Add-in Use ANOVA to test differences between more than two means Explore statistical power by manipulating mean differences, standard errors, directionality, and alpha Take advantage of Recommended PivotTables, Quick Analysis, and other Excel 2013 shortcuts
Download or read book Business Statistics Using Excel written by Glyn Davis and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business Statistics Using Excel is packed full of examples and integrated Excel screenshots, guiding students step-by-step through the theory and methods behind the use of statistics in the real world. Student exercises running throughout each chapter serve to engage students and encourage self-directed learning and testing.
Download or read book Excel 2010 for Business Statistics written by Thomas J Quirk and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to show the capabilities of Microsoft Excel to teach business statistics effectively. It is a step-by-step exercise-driven guide for students and practitioners who need to master Excel to solve practical business problems. If understanding statistics isn’t your strongest suit, you are not especially mathematically-inclined, or if you are wary of computers, this is the right book for you. Excel, a widely available computer program for students and managers, is also an effective teaching and learning tool for quantitative analyses in business courses. Its powerful computational ability and graphical functions make learning statistics much easier than in years past. However, Excel 2010 for Business Statistics: A Guide to Solving Practical Business Problems is the first book to capitalize on these improvements by teaching students and managers how to apply Excel to statistical techniques necessary in their courses and work. Each chapter explains statistical formulas and directs the reader to use Excel commands to solve specific, easy-to-understand business problems. Practice problems are provided at the end of each chapter with their solutions in an appendix. Separately, there is a full Practice Test (with answers in an Appendix) that allows readers to test what they have learned.
Download or read book Excel 2010 for Business Statistics written by Thomas J. Quirk and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Microsoft Excel 2010 written by Wayne L. Winston and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning business professor and corporate consultant shares the best of his real-world experience in this practical, scenario-focused guide--fully updated for Excel 2010.
Download or read book Applied Statistics for Business and Management using Microsoft Excel written by Linda Herkenhoff and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applied Business Statistics for Business and Management using Microsoft Excel is the first book to illustrate the capabilities of Microsoft Excel to teach applied statistics effectively. It is a step-by-step exercise-driven guide for students and practitioners who need to master Excel to solve practical statistical problems in industry. If understanding statistics isn’t your strongest suit, you are not especially mathematically-inclined, or if you are wary of computers, this is the right book for you. Excel, a widely available computer program for students and managers, is also an effective teaching and learning tool for quantitative analyses in statistics courses. Its powerful computational ability and graphical functions make learning statistics much easier than in years past. However, Applied Business Statistics for Business and Management capitalizes on these improvements by teaching students and practitioners how to apply Excel to statistical techniques necessary in their courses and workplace. Each chapter explains statistical formulas and directs the reader to use Excel commands to solve specific, easy-to-understand business problems. Practice problems are provided at the end of each chapter with their solutions.
Download or read book Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010 written by Alberto Ferrari and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010: Give Your Data Meaning introduces PowerPivot in Excel 2010 to power users and data analysts who want to give their data meaning by creating their own Business Intelligence models. And with Microsoft Excel 2010: Data Analysis and Business Modeling, you'll learn the best ways to use Office Excel 2010 for data analysis and business modeling. Award-winning professor and statistician Wayne Winston shares practical examples to help you transform data into bottom-line results. Web site includes practice files. The two books included in this kit are: 9780735640580 Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010 9780735643369 Microsoft Office Excel 2007: Data Analysis and Business Modeling, 3E
Download or read book PowerPivot for the Data Analyst written by Bill Jelen and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2010 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the use of Microsoft's free PowerPivot add-in to analyse data in Excel 2010. Describes how to import and integrate data; analyse multiple tables together; format, sort and filter data; add calculated columns using Data Analysis Expression (DAX) functions; and create and format PowerPivot reports.
Download or read book Statistical Analysis written by Conrad Carlberg and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2011-04-22 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statistical Analysis: Microsoft Excel 2010 “Excel has become the standard platform for quantitative analysis. Carlberg has become a world-class guide for Excel users wanting to do quantitative analysis. The combination makes Statistical Analysis: Microsoft Excel 2010 a must-have addition to the library of those who want to get the job done and done right.” —Gene V Glass, Regents’ Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University Use Excel 2010’s statistical tools to transform your data into knowledge Use Excel 2010’s powerful statistical tools to gain a deeper understanding of your data, make more accurate and reliable inferences, and solve problems in fields ranging from business to health sciences. Top Excel guru Conrad Carlberg shows how to use Excel 2010 to perform the core statistical tasks every business professional, student, and researcher should master. Using real-world examples, Carlberg helps you choose the right technique for each problem and get the most out of Excel’s statistical features, including its new consistency functions. Along the way, you discover the most effective ways to use correlation and regression and analysis of variance and covariance. You see how to use Excel to test statistical hypotheses using the normal, binomial, t and F distributions. Becoming an expert with Excel statistics has never been easier! You’ll find crystal-clear instructions, insider insights, and complete step-by-step projects—all complemented by an extensive set of web-based resources. • Master Excel’s most useful descriptive and inferential statistical tools • Tell the truth with statistics, and recognize when others don’t • Accurately summarize sets of values • View how values cluster and disperse • Infer a population’s characteristics from a sample’s frequency distribution • Explore correlation and regression to learn how variables move in tandem • Understand Excel’s new consistency functions • Test differences between two means using z tests, t tests, and Excel’s Data Analysis Add-in • Use ANOVA and ANCOVA to test differences between more than two means • Explore statistical power by manipulating mean differences, standard errors, directionality, and alpha There is an Excel workbook for each chapter, and each worksheet is keyed to one of the book's figures. You'll also find additional material, such as a chart that demonstrates how statistical power shifts as you manipulate sample size, mean differences, alpha and directionality. To access these free files, please visit http://www.quepublishing.com/title/0789747200 and click the Downloads Tab.
Download or read book Analyzing Data and Making Decisions written by Judith Skuce and published by Pearson Education Canada. This book was released on 2012-06-27 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appropriate for one or two semester introductory Business Statistics courses. Judith Skuce offers an alternative to densely written and confusing Business Statistics texts. Business Stats is often challenging to teach and requires a resource that offers a clear and straightforward presentation of complex topics. The second edition of Analyzing Data and Making Decisions continues its student-friendly, straightforward tone and offers an “applications-first” approach. The text is now completely up to date with Excel 2010 instructions and examples. MyStatLab is not included with the purchase of this product.
Download or read book Beginning Microsoft Excel 2010 written by Abbott Katz and published by Apress. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning Microsoft Excel 2010 is a practical, step-by-step guide to getting started with the world’s most widely-used spreadsheet application. The book offers a hands-on approach to learning how to create and edit spreadsheets, use various calculation formulas, employ charts/graphs, and get work done efficiently. Microsoft rolled out several new features with Excel 2010—perhaps the most notable was the ability to use Excel 2010 online and collaborate on a project in real time. Beginning Microsoft Office 2010 keeps you up-to-date with all of these features and more.
Download or read book Excel 2010 for Environmental Sciences Statistics written by Thomas J. Quirk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to show the capabilities of Microsoft Excel to teach environmental sciences statistics effectively. It is a step-by-step exercise-driven guide for students and practitioners who need to master Excel to solve practical environmental sciences problems. If understanding statistics isn’t your strongest suit, you are not especially mathematically-inclined, or if you are wary of computers, this is the right book for you. Excel, a widely available computer program for students and managers, is also an effective teaching and learning tool for quantitative analyses in environmental science courses. Its powerful computational ability and graphical functions make learning statistics much easier than in years past. However, Excel 2010 for Environmental Sciences Statistics: A Guide to Solving Practical Problems is the first book to capitalize on these improvements by teaching students and managers how to apply Excel to statistical techniques necessary in their courses and work. Each chapter explains statistical formulas and directs the reader to use Excel commands to solve specific, easy-to-understand environmental science problems. Practice problems are provided at the end of each chapter with their solutions in an appendix. Separately, there is a full Practice Test (with answers in an Appendix) that allows readers to test what they have learned.
Download or read book Microsoft Excel 2010 Inside Out written by Craig Stinson and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 1711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You're beyond the basics, so dive in and really put your spreadsheet skills to work! This supremely organized reference is packed with hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds. It's all muscle and no fluff. Discover how the experts tackle Excel 2010-and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery! Learn expert techniques for designing powerful spreadsheets Apply built-in functions-or write your own-and carry out complex calculations Use rich charting and graphic capabilities to visualize data Perform sophisticated data analysis: financial, statistical, and "what-if" Design PivotTable reports to dynamically analyze data Share and collaborate with others-while managing sensitive data Link and embed Excel data into other documents Create macros with Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications Sample spreadsheets from inside the book Add-ins and other resources to help you extend Microsoft Office programs Links to demos, user communities, and product support
Download or read book Pivot Table Data Crunching written by Bill Jelen and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2010-10-20 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PivotTables may be Excel's most powerful feature, but Microsoft has estimated that only 15% of Excel users take advantage of them. That's because PivotTables (and their companion feature, PivotCharts) have a reputation for being difficult to learn. Not any more! In this book, Excel legends Bill Jelen ("MrExcel") and Michael Alexander teach PivotTables and PivotCharts step-by-step, using realistic business scenarios that any Excel user can intuitively understand. Jelen and Alexander go far beyond merely explaining PivotTables and PivotCharts: they present practical "recipes" for solving a wide range of business problems. Drawing on more than 30 combined years of Excel experience, they provide tips and tricks you won't find anywhere else, and show exactly how to sidestep common mistakes. Coverage includes: " Creating PivotTables, customizing them, and changing the way you view them " Performing calculations within PivotTables " Using PivotCharts and other visualizations " Analyzing multiple data sources with PivotTables " Sharing PivotTables with others " Working with and analyzing OLAP data " Making the most of Excel 2010's powerful new PowerPivot feature " Using Excel 2010's Slicer to dynamically filter PivotTables " Enhancing PivotTables with macros and VBA code This book is part of the new MrExcel Library series, edited by Bill Jelen, world-renowned Excel expert and host of the enormously popular Excel help site, MrExcel.com. Teaches PivotTables, PivotCharts, and Excel 2010's new PowerPivot feature through real-world scenarios that make intuitive sense to users at all levels Includes proven PivotTable recipes for instant on-the-job results Helps Excel users avoid common pitfalls and mistakes Part of the brand-new MrExcel Library series, edited by Excel legend Bill Jelen
Download or read book Excel 2010 for Health Services Management Statistics written by Thomas J. Quirk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to show the capabilities of Microsoft Excel to teach health services management statistics effectively. It is a step-by-step exercise-driven guide for students and practitioners who need to master Excel to solve practical health services management problems. If understanding statistics isn’t your strongest suit, you are not especially mathematically-inclined, or if you are wary of computers, this is the right book for you. Excel, a widely available computer program for students and managers, is also an effective teaching and learning tool for quantitative analyses in health services management courses. Its powerful computational ability and graphical functions make learning statistics much easier than in years past. However, Excel 2010 for Health Services Management Statistics: A Guide to Solving Practical Problems is the first book to capitalize on these improvements by teaching students and managers how to apply Excel to statistical techniques necessary in their courses and work. Each chapter explains statistical formulas and directs the reader to use Excel commands to solve specific, easy-to-understand health services management problems. Practice problems are provided at the end of each chapter with their solutions in an Appendix. Separately, there is a full Practice Test (with answers in an Appendix) that allows readers to test what they have learned.
Download or read book Learning Business Statistics with Microsoft Excel 97 written by John L. Neufeld and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a supplemental text intended to accompany an introductory statistics textbook. Each chapter is organized around a particular statistical concept or technique. Some of the chapters contain experiments designed to permit students to explore statistical concepts by using the computer to perform experiments. The use of Excel to conduct established analytical procedures is fully covered.