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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher McGraw-Hill College
Publication date September 1, 2002
Pages 854
Binding Hardcover
Edition 5th
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780071198936
ISBN-10 0071198938
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Original list price $55.01
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Summaries and Reviews
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Practical Business Statistics, Sixth Edition, is a conceptual , realistic, and matter-of-fact approach to managerial statistics that carefully maintains, but does not overemphasize, mathematical correctness. The book offers a deep understanding of how to learn from data and how to deal with uncertainty while promoting the use of practical computer applications. This teaches present and future managers how to use and understand statistics without an overdose of technical detail, enabling them to better understand the concepts at hand and to interpret results. The text uses excellent examples with real world data relating to the functional areas within Business such as finance, accounting, and marketing. It is well written and designed to help students gain a solid understanding of fundamental statistical principles without bogging them down with excess mathematical details.

This edition features many examples and problems that have been updated with more recent data sets, and continues to use the ever-changing Internet as a data source. Supplemental materials include companion website with datasets and software.

Each chapter begins with an overview, showing why the subject is important to business, and ends with a comprehensive summary, with key words, questions, problems, database exercises, projects, and cases in most chapters.

This text is written for the introductory business/management statistics course offered for undergraduate students or Quantitative Methods in Management/ Analytics for Managers at the MBA level.

  • User-friendly, lively writing style
  • Separate writing chapter aids instructors in teaching how to explain quantitative analysis
  • Over 200 carefully-drawn charts and graphs show how to visualize data
  • Data mining is a theme that appears in many chapters, often featuring a large database (included on the website) of characteristics of 20,000 potential donors to a worthy cause and the amount actually given in response to a mailing
  • Many of the examples and problems in the sixth edition have been updated with more recent data sets, and the ever-changing Internet continues to be featured as a data source
  • Each chapter begins with an overview, showing why the subject is important to business, and ends with a comprehensive summary, with key words, questions, problems, database exercises, projects, and cases in most chapters
  • All details are technically accurate (Professor Siegel has a PhD in Statistics from Stanford University and has given presentations on exploratory data analysis with its creator) while the book concentrates on the understanding and use of statistics by managers
  • Features that have worked well for students and instructors in the first five editions have been retained


Editions
Hardcover
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Hardcover with CD edition from Academic Pr (September 9, 2011)
9780124159525 | details & prices | 619 pages | 8.50 × 10.75 × 1.25 in. | 3.80 lbs | List price $104.95
6 edition from Academic Pr (January 25, 2011)
9780123852083 | details & prices | 619 pages | 9.00 × 11.50 × 1.25 in. | 3.70 lbs | List price $99.95
With C. S. Lewis | 5th edition from McGraw-Hill (December 1, 2002)
9780072499056 | details & prices | List price $83.50
This edition also contains The Horse and His Boy
5 har/cdr edition from Irwin Professional Pub (October 1, 2002)
9780072821253 | details & prices | 8.25 × 10.25 × 1.50 in. | 3.90 lbs | List price $212.65
The price comparison is for this edition
5th edition from McGraw-Hill College (September 1, 2002)
9780071198936 | details & prices | 854 pages | List price $55.01
About: Practical Business Statistics, Sixth Edition, is a conceptual , realistic, and matter-of-fact approach to managerial statistics that carefully maintains, but does not overemphasize, mathematical correctness.
With Keith Christiansen (other contributor) | from McGraw-Hill College (September 1, 1999)
4 pck edition from McGraw-Hill College (September 1, 1999)
9780072337556 | details & prices | 8.25 × 10.00 × 1.25 in. | 3.60 lbs | List price $134.20
Pck edition from McGraw-Hill College (August 1, 1997)
9780256243222 | details & prices | 8.50 × 10.75 × 1.75 in. | 4.35 lbs | List price $104.05
About: "Practical Business Statistics, 5/e" was written in response to instructors not wanting a formula driven, mathematically encyclopedic book.
3 ed edition from Richard d Irwin (June 1, 1997)
9780256194074 | details & prices | List price N/A

About: Emphasizing real business uses of statistics, and focusing on basic understanding and interpretation theory rather than mathematical precision and formula detail, this work contains a projects section at the end of each chapter, which bring statistics closer to students' needs.
3rd packag edition from McGraw-Hill College (January 1, 1997)
9780256242171 | details & prices | 8.75 × 11.00 × 1.50 in. | 4.00 lbs | List price $104.05
About: "Practical Business Statistics, 5/e" was written in response to instructors not wanting a formula driven, mathematically encyclopedic book.
3 pck edition from McGraw-Hill College (January 1, 1997)
9780256270273 | details & prices | 8.00 × 10.25 × 1.25 in. | 4.15 lbs | List price $104.05
About: "Practical Business Statistics, 5/e" was written in response to instructors not wanting a formula driven, mathematically encyclopedic book.
3 pck edition from McGraw-Hill College (January 1, 1997)
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About: "Practical Business Statistics, 5/e" was written in response to instructors not wanting a formula driven, mathematically encyclopedic book.
Pck edition from McGraw-Hill College (January 1, 1997)
9780256265316 | details & prices | 8.50 × 10.75 × 2.50 in. | 6.75 lbs | List price $120.00
About: "Practical Business Statistics, 5/e" was written in response to instructors not wanting a formula driven, mathematically encyclopedic book.
3 pck edition from McGraw-Hill College (January 1, 1997)
9780256266740 | details & prices | 8.25 × 10.50 × 1.75 in. | 4.65 lbs | List price $189.60
About: Practical Business Statistics, Sixth Edition, is a conceptual , realistic, and matter-of-fact approach to managerial statistics that carefully maintains, but does not overemphasize, mathematical correctness.
Pck edition from Richard d Irwin (August 1, 1996)
9780256224788 | details & prices | List price $25.25
With Scott Atlie, Joss Whedon, Georges Jeanty | 3 tch edition from Richard d Irwin (July 1, 1996)
3rd edition from Richard d Irwin (July 1, 1996)
9780256257397 | details & prices | 8.50 × 10.50 × 1.25 in. | 3.50 lbs | List price $111.85
With Jim Lavene, Joyce Lavene | 2nd edition from Richard d Irwin (January 1, 1994)
9780256109740 | details & prices | 7.50 × 9.50 × 1.50 in. | 3.15 lbs | List price $68.50
This edition also contains A Haunting Dream
Paperback
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5th edition from Academic Internet Pub Inc (October 30, 2006)
9781428813496 | details & prices | 100 pages | List price $28.95
Sol edition from Irwin Professional Pub (September 1, 1999)
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Sol edition from Richard d Irwin (December 1, 1997)
9780256214901 | details & prices | 8.00 × 10.50 × 0.25 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $30.55
About: "Practical Business Statistics, 5/e" was written in response to instructors not wanting a formula driven, mathematically encyclopedic book.

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