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Statistics.com is the leading provider of professional development courses in statistics. Online programs give you regular access to leading experts in statistics with courses that fit your budget and schedule. Enroll in a Professional Advancement Program to earn a certificate (biostatistics, environmental statistics, data mining, etc.), or just register in specific courses as desired. |
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| Statistics.com is the leading provider of professional development courses in statistics. We offer over 50 courses on convenient schedules that allow for instructor-student interaction via a private discussion board, without requiring that you be online at any particular time. Teaching assistants provide regular feedback on practical exercises, and we offer CEU's, course completion certificates, and program certificates. The instructors at statistics.com are world-recognized authorities, often the author of standard textbooks in their field. Only statistics.com offers the opportunity to be in direct contact with these experts for weeks at a time. |
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| "Statistics is a mathematical science pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data. It is applicable to a wide variety of academic disciplines, from the physical and social sciences to the humanities. Statistics are also used for making informed decisions – and misused for other reasons – in all areas of business and government. Statistical methods can be used to summarize or describe a collection of data; this is called descriptive statistics. In addition, patterns in the data may be modeled in a way that accounts for randomness and uncertainty in the observations, and then used to draw inferences about the process or population being studied; this is called inferential statistics. Both descriptive and inferential statistics comprise applied statistics. There is also a discipline called mathematical statistics, which is concerned with the theoretical basis of the subject." |
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Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning
by Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris |
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You have more information at hand about your business environment than ever before. But are you using it to “out-think” your rivals? If not, you may be missing out on a potent competitive tool. In Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning , Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris argue that the frontier for using data to make decisions has shifted dramatically. Certain high-performing enterprises are now building their competitive strategies around data-driven insights that in turn generate impressive business results. |
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press (March 6, 2007)
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
Pages: 240 pages |
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| Their secret weapon? Analytics: sophisticated quantitative and statistical analysis and predictive modeling. Exemplars of analytics are using new tools to identify their most profitable customers and offer them the right price, to accelerate product innovation, to optimize supply chains, and to identify the true drivers of financial performance. A wealth of examples—from organizations as diverse as Amazon, Barclay’s, Capital One, Harrah’s, Procter & Gamble, Wachovia, and the Boston Red Sox—illuminate how to leverage the power of analytics. |
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner |
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The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. In Freakonomics, Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious: they could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. |
Publisher: William Morrow; Rev&Expand, (October 17, 2006)
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches
Pages: 336 |
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| For example, Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and, digging further, to the Roe v. Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship. Elsewhere, by analyzing data gathered from inner-city Chicago drug-dealing gangs, Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonald's, where the top bosses make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage. And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents, Levitt argues that parenting methods don't really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun. These enlightening chapters are separated by effusive passages from Dubner's 2003 profile of Levitt in The New York Times Magazine, which led to the book being written. In a book filled with bold logic, such back-patting veers Freakonomics, however briefly, away from what Levitt actually has to say. Although maybe there's a good economic reason for that too, and we're just not getting it yet. --John Moe |
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Statistics for Management and Economics (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac )
by Gerald Keller |
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This worldwide best-selling business statistics text teaches students how to apply statistics to real business problems through the author's unique three-step approach to problem solving. Students learn to IDENTIFY the right technique by focusing on the problem objective and data type. They then learn to COMPUTE the statistics either by hand, using Excel, or using MINITAB. Finally, they INTERPRET the results in the context of the problem. |
Publisher: South-Western College Pub; (December 16, 2004)
Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.2 x 1.3 inches
Pages: 912 pages |
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| Keller's approach enhances student comprehension as well as practical skills. The book offers maximum flexibility to instructors wishing to teach concepts by hand or with the computer, or by using both hand and computer methods. |
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