Guide your students in mastering data analysis, modeling and the effective use of spreadsheets with Albright/Winston's popular BUSINESS ANALYTICS: DATA ANALYSIS AND DECISION MAKING, 7E. This edition is more data-oriented than ever before with a new chapter covering the two main Power BI tools in Excel -- Power Query and Power Pivot -- and a section on data visualization with Tableau Public. Current problems, cases and examples highlight the relevance of the material. In addition, a Companion Website includes data and solutions files, PowerPoint slides, SolverTable for optimization sensitivity analysis and the Palisade DecisionTools Suite. MindTap digital resources are also available.
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- EMPHASIS ON MODERN DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS EQUIPS STUDENTS FOR TODAY'S BUSINESS WORLD.
- MINDTAP DIGITAL RESOURCES ACCELERATE STUDENT PROGRESS.
- PRACTICAL TECHNICAL TIPS GUIDE STUDENTS IN APPLYING CONCEPTS TO ACTUAL BUSINESS PRACTICE.
- NUMEROUS CONCEPTUAL QUESTIONS, PROBLEMS AND CASES HELP ENSURE UNDERSTANDING.
- UPDATES REFLECT THE LATEST VERSION OF EXCEL FOR OFFICE 365, WINDOWS OR MAC.
1 Introduction to Business Analytics
PART 1 Data Analysis
2 Describing the Distribution of a Variable
3 Finding Relationships among Variables
4 Business Intelligence (BI) Tools for Data Analysis
PART 2 Probability and Decision Making under Uncertainty
5 Probability and Probability 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
18 Analysis of Variance and Experimental Design (MindTap Reader only)
19 Statistical Process Control (MindTap Reader only)
APPENDIX A: Quantitative Reporting (MindTap Reader only)
References
Index
S. Christian Albright, Indiana University, School of Business (Emeritus)
Wayne L. Winston, Indiana University, Kelley School of Business (Emeritus)