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| statistics in business decision making: Business Intelligence Carlo Vercellis, 2011-08-10 Business intelligence is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and analyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions. The term implies having a comprehensive knowledge of all factors that affect a business, such as customers, competitors, business partners, economic environment, and internal operations, therefore enabling optimal decisions to be made. Business Intelligence provides readers with an introduction and practical guide to the mathematical models and analysis methodologies vital to business intelligence. This book: Combines detailed coverage with a practical guide to the mathematical models and analysis methodologies of business intelligence. Covers all the hot topics such as data warehousing, data mining and its applications, machine learning, classification, supply optimization models, decision support systems, and analytical methods for performance evaluation. Is made accessible to readers through the careful definition and introduction of each concept, followed by the extensive use of examples and numerous real-life case studies. Explains how to utilise mathematical models and analysis models to make effective and good quality business decisions. This book is aimed at postgraduate students following data analysis and data mining courses. Researchers looking for a systematic and broad coverage of topics in operations research and mathematical models for decision-making will find this an invaluable guide. |
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| statistics in business decision making: Data Science for Business Foster Provost, Tom Fawcett, 2013-07-27 Written by renowned data science experts Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, Data Science for Business introduces the fundamental principles of data science, and walks you through the data-analytic thinking necessary for extracting useful knowledge and business value from the data you collect. This guide also helps you understand the many data-mining techniques in use today. Based on an MBA course Provost has taught at New York University over the past ten years, Data Science for Business provides examples of real-world business problems to illustrate these principles. You’ll not only learn how to improve communication between business stakeholders and data scientists, but also how participate intelligently in your company’s data science projects. You’ll also discover how to think data-analytically, and fully appreciate how data science methods can support business decision-making. Understand how data science fits in your organization—and how you can use it for competitive advantage Treat data as a business asset that requires careful investment if you’re to gain real value Approach business problems data-analytically, using the data-mining process to gather good data in the most appropriate way Learn general concepts for actually extracting knowledge from data Apply data science principles when interviewing data science job candidates |
| statistics in business decision making: Statistics for Business and Financial Economics Cheng F. Lee, John C. Lee, Alice C. Lee, 2000 This text integrates various statistical techniques with concepts from business, economics and finance, and demonstrates the power of statistical methods in the real world of business. This edition places more emphasis on finance, economics and accounting concepts with updated sample data. |
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| statistics in business decision making: Statistical Decision Theory and Bayesian Analysis James O. Berger, 2013-03-14 In this new edition the author has added substantial material on Bayesian analysis, including lengthy new sections on such important topics as empirical and hierarchical Bayes analysis, Bayesian calculation, Bayesian communication, and group decision making. With these changes, the book can be used as a self-contained introduction to Bayesian analysis. In addition, much of the decision-theoretic portion of the text was updated, including new sections covering such modern topics as minimax multivariate (Stein) estimation. |
| statistics in business decision making: Getting Started with Business Analytics David Roi Hardoon, Galit Shmueli, 2013-03-26 Assuming no prior knowledge or technical skills, Getting Started with Business Analytics: Insightful Decision-Making explores the contents, capabilities, and applications of business analytics. It bridges the worlds of business and statistics and describes business analytics from a non-commercial standpoint. The authors demystify the main concepts and terminologies and give many examples of real-world applications. The first part of the book introduces business data and recent technologies that have promoted fact-based decision-making. The authors look at how business intelligence differs from business analytics. They also discuss the main components of a business analytics application and the various requirements for integrating business with analytics. The second part presents the technologies underlying business analytics: data mining and data analytics. The book helps you understand the key concepts and ideas behind data mining and shows how data mining has expanded into data analytics when considering new types of data such as network and text data. The third part explores business analytics in depth, covering customer, social, and operational analytics. Each chapter in this part incorporates hands-on projects based on publicly available data. Helping you make sound decisions based on hard data, this self-contained guide provides an integrated framework for data mining in business analytics. It takes you on a journey through this data-rich world, showing you how to deploy business analytics solutions in your organization. |
| statistics in business decision making: Probability, Statistics, And Decision Making In The Atmospheric Sciences Allan Murphy, Richard W. Katz, 2019-07-11 Methodology drawn from the fields of probability. statistics and decision making plays an increasingly important role in the atmosphericsciences. both in basic and applied research and in experimental and operational studies. Applications of such methodology can be found in almost every facet of the discipline. from the most theoretical and global (e.g., atmospheric predictability. global climate modeling) to the most practical and local (e.g., crop-weather modeling forecast evaluation). Almost every issue of the multitude of journals published by the atmospheric sciences community now contain some or more papers involving applications of concepts and/or methodology from the fields of probability and statistics. Despite the increasingly pervasive nature of such applications. very few book length treatments of probabilistic and statistical topics of particular interest to atmospheric scientists have appeared (especially inEnglish) since the publication of the pioneering works of Brooks andCarruthers (Handbook of Statistical Methods in Meteorology) in 1953 and Panofsky and Brier-(some Applications of)statistics to Meteor) in 1958. As a result. many relatively recent developments in probability and statistics are not well known to atmospheric scientists and recent work in active areas of meteorological research involving significant applications of probabilistic and statistical methods are not familiar to the meteorological community as a whole. |
| statistics in business decision making: Statistical Analysis for Decision Making Morris Hamburg, Peg Young, 1994 This text is intended for the algebra-based introductory one- or two-term business statistics course found in schools of business or in departments of statistics or mathematics. |
| statistics in business decision making: Data Science and Multiple Criteria Decision Making Approaches in Finance Gökhan Silahtaroğlu, Hasan Dinçer, Serhat Yüksel, 2021-05-29 This book considers and assesses essential financial issues by utilizing data science and fuzzy multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) methods. It introduces readers to a range of data science methods, and demonstrates their application in the fields of business, health, economics, finance and engineering. In addition, it provides suggestions based on the assessment results on each topic, which can help to enhance the efficiency of the financial system and the sustainability of economic development. Given its scope, the book will help readers broaden their perspective on the assessment and evaluation of financial issues using data science and MCDM approaches. |
| statistics in business decision making: Decision Making in Service Industries Javier Faulin, Angel A. Juan, Scott E. Grasman, Michael J. Fry, 2012-08-08 In real-life scenarios, service management involves complex decision-making processes usually affected by random or stochastic variables. Under such uncertain conditions, the development and use of robust and flexible strategies, algorithms, and methods can provide the quantitative information necessary to make better business decisions. Decision Making in Service Industries: A Practical Approach explores the challenges that must be faced to provide intelligent strategies for efficient management and decision making that will increase your organization’s competitiveness and profitability. The book provides insight and understanding into practical and methodological issues related to decision-making processes under uncertainty in service industries. It examines current and future trends regarding how these decision-making processes can be efficiently performed for better design of service systems by using probabilistic algorithms as well as hybrid and simulation-based approaches. Traditionally, many quantitative tools have been developed to make decisions in production companies. This book explores how to use these tools for making decisions inside service industries. Thus, the authors tackle strategic, tactical, and operational problems in service companies with the help of suitable quantitative models such as heuristic and metaheuristic algorithms, simulation, or queuing theory. Generally speaking, decision making is a hard task in business fields. Making the issue more complex, most service companies’ problems are related to the uncertainty of the service demand. This book sheds light on these types of decision problems. It provides studies that demonstrate the suitability of quantitative methods to make the right decisions. Consequently, this book presents the business analytics needed to make strategic decisions in service industries. |
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| statistics in business decision making: Applied Statistical Methods Irving W. Burr, 2014-05-10 Applied Statistical Methods covers the fundamental understanding of statistical methods necessary to deal with a wide variety of practical problems. This 14-chapter text presents the topics covered in a manner that stresses clarity of understanding, interpretation, and method of application. The introductory chapter illustrates the importance of statistical analysis. The next chapters introduce the methods of data summarization, including frequency distributions, cumulative frequency distributions, and measures of central tendency and variability. These topics are followed by discussions of the fundamental principles of probability, the concepts of sample spaces, outcomes, events, probability, independence of events, and the characterization of discrete and continuous random variables. Other chapters explore the distribution of several important statistics; statistical tests of hypotheses; point and interval estimation; and simple linear regression. The concluding chapters review the elements of single- and two-factor analysis of variance and the design of analysis of variance experiments. This book is intended primarily for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences, as well as in economics, business, and related areas. Researchers and line personnel in industry and government will find this book useful in self-study. |
| statistics in business decision making: Statistics for Business Robert Stine, Dean Foster, 2010-04-23 This package consists of the textbook plus an access kit for MyMathLab/MyStatLab. In the competitive world of business, effective decision making is crucial. To help you stand out from the crowd, Robert Stine and Dean Foster of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania have written an exciting new book for business statistics. This book teaches you how to use data to make informed decisions; every chapter highlights issues in the modern business world. The authors provide strong connections between the statistical concepts in the text and the problems you will face in your future careers, showing you how to find patterns, create statistical models from the data, and deliver your findings to an audience. MyMathLab provides a wide range of homework, tutorial, and assessment tools that make it easy to manage your course online. |
| statistics in business decision making: Multiple Attribute Decision Making Ching-Lai Hwang, Kwangsun Yoon, 2012-12-06 This mono graph is intended for an advanced undergraduate or graduate course as weIl as for the researchers who want a compilation of developments in this rapidly growing field of operations research. This is a sequel to our previous work entitled Multiple Objective Decision Making--Methods and Applications: A State-of-the-Art Survey, (No. 164 of the Lecture Notes). The literature on methods and applications of Multiple Attribute Decision Making (MADM) has been reviewed and classified systematically. This study provides readers with a capsule look into the existing methods, their char acteristics, and applicability to analysis of MADM problems. The basic MADM concepts are defined and a standard notation is introduced in Part 11. Also introduced are foundations such as models for MADM, trans formation of attributes, fuzzy decision rules, and methods for assessing weight. A system of classifying seventeen major MADM methods is presented. These methods have been proposed by researchers in diversified disciplines; half of them are classical ones, but the other half have appeared recently. The basic concept, the computational procedure, and the characteristics of each of these methods are presented concisely in Part 111. The computational procedure of each method is illustrated by solving a simple numerical example. Part IV of the survey deals with the applications of these MADM methods. |
| statistics in business decision making: Decision Making and Performance Evaluation Using Data Envelopment Analysis Dariush Khezrimotlagh, Yao Chen, 2018-05-03 This book offers new transparent views and step-by-step methods for performance evaluation of a set of units using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book has twelve practical chapters. Elementary concepts and definitions are gradually built in Chapters 1-6 based upon four examples of one input and one output factors, two input factors, two output factors, and four input and three output factors. Simultaneously, the mathematical foundations using linear programming are also introduced without any prerequisites. A reader with basic knowledge of mathematics and computers is able to understand the contents of the book. In addition, to prevent pre-judgment about the available concepts and definitions in the DEA literature, some new phrases are introduced and, after elucidating each phrase in detail in Chapters 1-6, they are reintroduced for industry-wide accuracy in Chapter 7. After that, some of the more advanced DEA topics are illustrated in Chapters 8-12, such as: production-planning problems, output-input ratio analysis, efficiency over different time periods, Malmquist efficiency indexes, and a delta neighborhood model. A clear overview of many of the elementary and advanced concepts of DEA is provided, including Technical Efficiency, Relative Efficiency, Cost/Revenue/Profit Efficiency, Price/Overall Efficiency, the DEA axioms, the mathematical background to measure technical efficiency and overall efficiency, the multiplier/envelopment form of basic DEA models in input/output-orientation, the multiplier/envelopment of Additive DEA model, the multiplier/envelopment of slacks-based models, and others. The book also covers a variety of DEA techniques, input-output ratio analysis, the natural relationships between DEA frontier and the ratio of output to input factors, production-planning problems, planning ideas with a centralized decision-making unit, context-dependent DEA, Malmquist efficiency index, efficiency over different time periods, and others. End-of-chapter exercises are provided for each chapter. |
| statistics in business decision making: The Paradox of Choice Barry Schwartz, 2009-10-13 Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401(k), everyday decisions—both big and small—have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented. As Americans, we assume that more choice means better options and greater satisfaction. But beware of excessive choice: choice overload can make you question the decisions you make before you even make them, it can set you up for unrealistically high expectations, and it can make you blame yourself for any and all failures. In the long run, this can lead to decision-making paralysis, anxiety, and perpetual stress. And, in a culture that tells us that there is no excuse for falling short of perfection when your options are limitless, too much choice can lead to clinical depression. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains at what point choice—the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish—becomes detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz shows how the dramatic explosion in choice—from the mundane to the profound challenges of balancing career, family, and individual needs—has paradoxically become a problem instead of a solution. Schwartz also shows how our obsession with choice encourages us to seek that which makes us feel worse. By synthesizing current research in the social sciences, Schwartz makes the counter intuitive case that eliminating choices can greatly reduce the stress, anxiety, and busyness of our lives. He offers eleven practical steps on how to limit choices to a manageable number, have the discipline to focus on those that are important and ignore the rest, and ultimately derive greater satisfaction from the choices you have to make. |
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Describing Categorical Data 28. 3.1 Looking at Data 29. 3.2 Charts of Categorical Data 31. 3.3 The Area Principle 35. 3.4 Mode and Median 40. Chapter Summary 43. Describing Numerical Data 52. 4.1 Summaries of Numerical Variables 53. 4.2 Histograms and the Distribution of Numerical Data 57.
Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach
Authorized adaptation from the United States edition, entitled Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 10th Edition, ISBN 978-0-13-449649-8 by David F. Groebner, Patrick W. Shannon, and Phillip C. Fry, published by Pearson Education © 2018.
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1.1 What Is Business Statistics? Descriptive Statistics. Inferential Procedures. 1.2 Procedures for Collecting Data. Common Data Collection Methods. Other Data Collection Methods. Data …
Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach
After completing this chapter, you should be able to: Compute and interpret the mean, median, and mode for a set of data. Compute the range, variance, and standard deviation and know …
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7th edition. 7th Edition. Topic #3 Hypothesis Testing. Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach, 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Chap …
The Practice Of Business Statistics Using Data For Decisions
edition of Business Statistics For Contemporary Decision Making authors Ken Black Tiffany Bayley and Ignacio Castillo uses current real world data to equip students with the business …
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understand model building using multiple regression analysis. apply multiple regression analysis to business decision-making situations. analyze and interpret the computer output for a …
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basic understanding of statistics allows you to: . present and describe information in a way that supports decision-making. make conclusions about larger groups on the basis of smaller …
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Explain three approaches to assessing probabilities. Apply common rules of probability. Use Bayes’ Theorem for conditional probabilities. Distinguish between discrete and continuous …
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• A broad introduction to a variety of prescriptive analytical techniques (e.g., decision analysis, optimization models, simulation); • A thorough discussion of various pitfalls in our thinking and …
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CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Statistics and Business Analytics - Wiley A textbook that covers the basics of statistics and analytics for business decision-making. Learn about data, variables, …
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After completing this chapter, you should be able to: Apply the binomial distribution to applied problems. Compute probabilities for the Poisson and hypergeometric distributions. Find …
Statistical Decision Theory: Concepts, Methods and …
decision theoretic methods lend themselves to a variety of applications and computational and analytic advances. This initial part of the report introduces the basic elements in (statistical) …
Statistics In Business Decision Making (Download Only)
Statistics: The Backbone of Sound Business Decisions In today's competitive business landscape, informed decision-making is paramount. While gut feeling and experience play a …
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MC 103: STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS DECISIONS. Course Objectives: To familiarize the students with various Statistical Data Analysis tools that can be used for effective decision …
