This book is about turning data into knowledge. Data is cheap (at least relatively); knowledge is harder to come by. I will present three related pieces: Probability is the study of random events. Most people have an intuitive understanding of degrees of probability, which is why you can use words like “probably” and “unlikely” without special training, but we will talk about how to m…
To illustrate the statistical functions and techniques within Excel we have used examples drawn for the world of research. We chose to do this because we believe this will clearly demonstrate some of the facilities within this spreadsheet. However, the statistical power of Excel will allow readers to use this software in a variety of ways, far beyond that of research.
The purpose of STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS is to give students, primarily those in the fields of business administration and economics, a conceptual introduction to the field of statistics and its many applications. The text is applications oriented and written with the needs of the nonmathematician in mind; the mathematical prerequisite is knowledge of algebra. Applications of d…
“Standard Deviations shows in compelling fashion why humans are so susceptible to the misuse of statistical evidence and why this matters. I know of no other book that explains important concepts such as selection bias in such an entertaining and memorable manner.”
In the modern world of computers and information technology, the importance of statistics is very well recogonised by all the disciplines. Statistics has originated as a science of statehood and found applications slowly and steadily in Agriculture, Economics, Commerce, Biology, Medicine, Industry, planning, education and so on. As on date there is no other human walk of life, where statistics …
The purpose of STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS is to give students, pri- marily those in the fields of business administration and economics, a conceptual introduc- tion to the field of statistics and its many applications. The text is applications oriented and written with the needs of the nonmathematician in mind; the mathematical prerequisite is knowledge of algebra. Applications of da…
I began business life as an entrepreneur in business in Hong Kong. I ran trade exhibitions, imported coffee from Kenya, and started and operated two restaurants, one of which (unusually for Hong Kong) served vegetarian food. These businesses were profitable, but I would have saved myself a great deal of stress, and done better if I had used some business intelligence informed by statistics to i…
CEIES stands for Comité consultatif européen de l’information statistique dans les domaines économique et social; in English: ‘The European Advisory Committee on Statistical Information in the Economic and Social Spheres’. Its task is to assist the Council and the Commission in the co-ordination of the objectives of the Com- munity's statistical information policy, taking into account …