Basic Business Statistics: A Casebook

by Richard P. Waterman, Dean P. Foster, Robert A. Stine, et al.

Book Overview

Preface Statistics is seldom the most eagerly anticipated course of a business student. It typically has the reputation of being a boring, complicated, and confusing mix of mathematical formulas and computers. Our goal in writing this casebook and the companion volume (Business Analysis Using Regression) was to change that impression by showing how statistics yields insights and answers interesting business questions. Rather than dwell on underlying...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387983546
• ISBN13: 9780387983547
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Good for intro to statistics for MBAs

This book is the book we use in our pre-term statistics class in the MBA program at Wharton. It is written by three Wharton stats professors. It is easy to read, but should used in conjunction with a statistical software program such as JMP. It is NOT a book for people trying to learn statistical formulae, etc. as this book focuses on concepts and using statistical software for analysis. There is a second book, used in the regular statistics class at Wharton, called "Business Analysis Using Regression" by the same authors for those who are comfortable with the concepts in this book.