This book provides coverage over the full range of analytics--descriptive, predictive, prescriptive--not covered by any other single book. It includes step-by-step instructions to help students learn how to use Excel and powerful but easy to use Excel add-ons such as XL Miner for data mining and Analytic Solver Platform for optimization and simulation.

Product Description: This textbook introduces a science philosophy called "information theoretic" based on Kullback-Leibler information theory. It focuses on a science philosophy based on "multiple working hypotheses" and statistical models to represent them...read more

This text offers an applications-oriented approach to and a methodological development of statistics for business and economics. The discussion and development of each technique is presented in an application setting, with the statistical results providing insights to decisions and solutions to problems. The new edition includes four new cases that emphasize managerial use and interpretation of statistics for a business approach, and self-test exercises enable students to check immediately their understanding of chapter content. The book has approximately 200 new problems based on real and referenced data to provide insight into today's world of statistics, and there are other added exercises and data throughout the text.

Product Description: The solutions manual prepared by the ASW author team includes solutions for all problems in the text.

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Product Description: A unique and comprehensive text on the philosophy of model-based data analysis and strategy for the analysis of empirical data. The book introduces information theoretic approaches and focuses critical attention on a priori modeling and the selection of a good approximating model that best represents the inference supported by the data...read more

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