Statistical thinking : improving business performance /

"How statistical thinking and methodology can help you make crucial business decisions. Straightforward and insightful, Statistical Thinking: Improving Business Performance, Second Edition, prepares you for business leadership by developing your capacity to apply statistical thinking to improve...

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Main Authors: Hoerl, Roger Wesley. (Author)
Corporate Authors: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Group Author: Snee, Ronald D.
Published: John Wiley & Sons,
Publisher Address: Hoboken, N.J. :
Publication Dates: 2012.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Edition: Second edition.
Series: Wiley & SAS business series
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Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781119202721
Summary: "How statistical thinking and methodology can help you make crucial business decisions. Straightforward and insightful, Statistical Thinking: Improving Business Performance, Second Edition, prepares you for business leadership by developing your capacity to apply statistical thinking to improve business processes. Unique and compelling, this book shows you how to derive actionable conclusions from data analysis, solve real problems, and improve real processes. Here, you'll discover how to implement statistical thinking and methodology in your work to improve business performance. Explores why statistical thinking is necessary and helpful. Provides case studies that illustrate how to integrate several statistical tools into the decision-making process. Facilitates and encourages an experiential learning environment to enable you to apply material to actual problems. With an in-depth discussion of JMP software, the new edition of this important book focuses on skills to improve business processes, including collecting data appropriate for a specified purpose, recognizing limitations in existing data, and understanding the limitations of statistical analyses"--
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xxix, 511 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781118223383
1118223381
9781118236857
1118236858
9781119202721
1119202728
9781118261859
1118261852
Index Number: HF1012
CLC: F712.3
Contents: pt. 1. Statistical thinking concepts -- pt. 2. Statistical engineering : frameworks and basic tools -- pt. 3. Formal statistical methods.