Selected Product: | Data Analysis for Managers with Microsoft Excel (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac) (Hardcover) Hardcover Edition: 2 Author: S. Christian Albright, Wayne L. Winston, Christopher Zappe Publisher: South-Western College Pub Release Date: 2003-02-19 ISBN-10: 0534383661 ISBN-13: 9780534383664 List Price: $192.95 Average Customer Rating: | | How to Read a Financial Report: Wringing Vital Signs Out of the Numbers (How to Read a Financial Report) ISBN-10: 0471478679 ISBN-13: 9780471478676 List Price:$19.95 Framework for Marketing Management (3rd Edition) ISBN-10: 0131452584 ISBN-13: 9780131452589 List Price:$133.33 Corporate Communication ISBN-10: 0072990546 ISBN-13: 9780072990546 List Price:$79.87 Financial Reporting and Analysis: Using Financial Accounting Information (with Thomson Analytics Access Code) ISBN-10: 0324304455 ISBN-13: 9780324304459 List Price:$207.95 Contemporary Economics: An Applications Approach ISBN-10: 0765620847 ISBN-13: 9780765620842 List Price:$95.00 |
To use our price comparison to get the cheapest price, please click on the "Find the Cheapest Price" button located above for Data Analysis for Managers with Microsoft Excel (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac) (Hardcover) by S. Christian Albright, Wayne L. Winston, Christopher Zappe (ISBN-10: 0534383661, ISBN-13: 9780534383664). At this time we have not yet written a review for Data Analysis for Managers with Microsoft Excel (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac) (Hardcover) by S. Christian Albright, Wayne L. Winston, Christopher Zappe (ISBN-10: 0534383661, ISBN-13: 9780534383664). Please continue to keep checking back to this page as we are constantly adding reviews. Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com This text presents statistical concepts and methods in a unified, modern, spreadsheet-oriented approach. Featuring a wealth of business applications, this examples-based text illustrates a variety of statistical methods to help students analyze data sets and uncover important information to aid decision-making. DATA ANALYSIS FOR MANAGERS contains professional StatPro add-ins for Microsoft Excel from Palisade, valued at one hundred fifty dollars packaged at no additional cost with every new text. Challenging Textbook, full of practical Excel techniques | Customer Rating: | Best for an MBA textbook or very dedicated self-study for quantitatively oriented business analysts. You learn a lot of Excel skills and how to produce practical tables, charts and other exhibits in Excel.
Using traditional statistical software such as SAS, SPSS, Statistica, etc. makes the teaching and learning simpler. Using specialized software is the way to go if you are going to learn heavy-duty statistics (PhD research or Stats major). However, if you are an MBA student, you probably will not have access to specialized statistical software, since the jobs for which that is cost-justified generally are staffed by stats majors. Thus, learning to do a great analysis job using Excel is beneficial in the job-market "afterlife".
This book isn't an "easy read," as you will need to work carefully *all* the examples to really understand what is going on, especially with the early chapters. A common problem is skimming over the examples, then running into a wall in later chapters. If you really study the heck out of each example, things seem to go well. The book comes with the data files for all the examples. The instructor's edition comes with excellent solutions for all the problems. The author really knows how to make Excel do anything!
I earned an MBA many years ago from a top ten MBA program and worked in business after that, including owning my own business. Later I returned to school for a phd degree and now teach stats in a b-school. | Waste of Money | Customer Rating: | I am using this book for a MBA class at a Top 20 school. Our class is focused on students who have not had any formal background in statistics. This book lacks in depth explanations for its problems. Its solutions manual is marginally helpful because it also does not explain how it reaches the answers.
Granted this book is mean to be used with excel, but it relies too much on Excel to do the computation. Thus the student is limited in building a strong basis in statistics.
Unfortunately, my whole MBA class is going through is agony with this book. |
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