Data Analysis and Decision Making with Microsoft Excel
- Book Review,
by S. Christian Christian Albright
From Book News, Inc.
A text/CD-ROM package with a practical rather than theoretic orientation, for students majoring in business, finance, marketing, and operations management. Illustrates different types of statistical methods for analyzing data sets, focusing on analytical methods that are useful in decision making. Material is example-driven and spreadsheet-based, with virtually no emphasis on hand (or hand calculator) calculations. Includes chapter problems and case studies. The CD-ROM contains Microsoft Excel's DecisionTools Suite. Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR
Book Description
The emphasis of the text is on data analysis, modeling, and spreadsheet use in statistics and management science. This text contains professional Excel software add-ins. The authors maintain the elements that have made this text a market leader in its first edition: clarity of writing, a teach-by-example approach, and complete Excel integration.
About the Author
Chris Albright received his B.S. degree in Mathematics from Stanford in 1968 and his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Stanford in 1972. Since then, he has been teaching in the Operations and Decision Technologies Department in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He has taught courses in management science, computer simulation, and statistics to all levels of business students: undergraduates, MBAs, and doctoral students. He has published over 20 articles in leading operations research journals in the area of applied probability, and he has authored other successful Duxbury titles including PRACTICAL MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, Second Edition, VBA FOR MODELERS, and DATA ANALYSIS AND DECISION MAKING, Second Edition. His current interest is in spreadsheet modeling, including development of VBA applications in Excel.
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