Statistics for Managers Using Excel [with Student CD]

by David M. Levine, David F. Stephan, Timothy C. Krehbiel

This book was the first to thoroughly integrate the use of Microsoft Excel as a tool for statistical analysis. The book focuses on the concepts of statistics with applications to the functional areas of business. It is rich in applications from accounting, finance, marketing, management and economics, covering data collection, tables and charts, probability, estimation, and more. For professionals, particularly managers, making financial analyses and decisions.

Genres: Textbooks, Business, Management, Reference, Nonfiction

858 pages, Hardcover

First published November 24, 1997

Reviews

[Nita · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was the textbook for my first official statistics class ever. Comes with software that pimps out .xls on your PC (_not_ Mac) so that you can crank out confidence intervals, run some two-tailed Z tests, and plot a li'l box-n-whisker action. The book is also made for business folk so there's a nice chapter that makes regression analysis accessible.

I sold the book four minutes after my final but if I owned a PC I'd probably keep it for the software alone. Insert entendre regarding whiskered boxes here.

But seriously folks, if you've never taken a statistics class I would implore you to do so, and by implore I mean, if I find out you haven't and have no intention of doing so I may have to banish you to the part of the standard normal distribution where the first derivative = 0 and the second derivative < 0. (Oh! Snap!)

xoxo

Z-score > 3

[Megan Bond · Rating 1 out of 5]

Painfully awful. Terms and definitions were not clearly defined. There wasn't a glossary of terms either. Parts referred to colored graphs/images but the book was printed in black and white... seriously? Answers to problems in the back didn't include any of the graphs which would have been extremely helpful. Trying to obtain where to get the data-sets (go to this page, the go to this page, go here, and then go to this link, then go here...) made me want to stab myself in the eye. Just give me the damn data so I can work through this problem! Walk-throughs and explanations could have been so much better, and for being labeled "using Excel" there was more just straight math than examples/instructions with working through the problem using Excel.

[Haytham Badawey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book for those with least skills in math, those who are do not have time for hand calculation, and who want to get some sense of statistics and measurement methods. Very good and very simple applications are used, including Excel- add-ins, PHStat2, and Visual statistics.xls add in. It's very helpful for those who need to actually understand, not just crunch numbers.

The summaries an illustrations are excellent as well.

I did not solve the exercises, so I am not sure about goodness of the exercises. But in total, it's a great book and I recommend it.

[René · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was ok for a glance at statistics. The first half of this book was written well and clear. However, the second half kept referring back to previous chapters to alter excel sheets. That's fine and dandy, but when there is no clear explanation in the previous chapters as to what's happening later in the book, this becomes a problem. I spent more time online searching for answers than I did reading the book.

Read August 26 to October 18, 2013

[Lynette Ledoux · Rating 3 out of 5]

necessary for the course I'm working through; the book is okay better than most to be honest. supplemented by lecture notes, power point presentations, homework, and khanacademy.com; we can all learn while making completing the course (work).

Three more weeks and the semester ends.

[Melissa Brogan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Barely used the book. Professor admitted it was a bad choice for her style of teaching the course. From what little we read of it, it was very useful.

[Alma Petterson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I learned a lot this was a hard class

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