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Business statistics : for contemporary decision making / Ken Black.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, c2012.Edition: 7th edDescription: xxvii, 850 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 9780470931462 (hardback)
  • 0470931469 (hardback)
  • 9781118024119
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 519.5
Online resources: Summary: "Black's latest outstanding pedagogy of Business Statistics includes the use of extra problems called "Demonstration Problems" to provide additional insight and explanation to working problems, and presents concepts, topics, formulas, and application in a manner that is palatable to a vast audience and minimizes the use of "scary" formulas. Every chapter opens up with a vignette called a "Decision Dilemma" about real companies, data, and business issues. Solutions to these dilemmas are presented as a feature called "Decision Dilemma Solved." In this edition all cases and "Decision Dilemmas" are updated and revised and 1/3 have been replaced for currency. There is also a significant number of additional problems and an extremely competitive collection of databases (containing real data) on: international stock markets, consumer food, international labor, financial, energy, agribusiness, 12-year gasoline, manufacturing, and hospital. "--
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REGULAR University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection 519.5 BL BU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available T0047372
REGULAR University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection 519.5 BL BU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available T0047371

spiral bound pages.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Black's latest outstanding pedagogy of Business Statistics includes the use of extra problems called "Demonstration Problems" to provide additional insight and explanation to working problems, and presents concepts, topics, formulas, and application in a manner that is palatable to a vast audience and minimizes the use of "scary" formulas. Every chapter opens up with a vignette called a "Decision Dilemma" about real companies, data, and business issues. Solutions to these dilemmas are presented as a feature called "Decision Dilemma Solved." In this edition all cases and "Decision Dilemmas" are updated and revised and 1/3 have been replaced for currency. There is also a significant number of additional problems and an extremely competitive collection of databases (containing real data) on: international stock markets, consumer food, international labor, financial, energy, agribusiness, 12-year gasoline, manufacturing, and hospital. "--

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