Data Analysis and Decision Making with Microsoft Excel: Includes Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Applications (Revised 3rd Edition)

Master data analysis, modeling, and spreadsheet use with DATA ANALYSIS AND DECISION MAKING WITH MICROSOFT EXCEL! With a teach-by-example approach, student-friendly writing style, and complete Excel integration, this quantitative methods text provides you with the tools you need to succeed. Margin notes, boxed-in definitions and formulas in the text, enhanced explanations in the text itself, and stated objectives for the examples found throughout the text make studying easy. Problem sets and cases provide realistic examples that enable you to see the relevance of the material to your future as a business leader. The CD-ROMs packaged with every new book include the following add-ins: the Palisade Decision Tools Suite (@RISK, StatTools, PrecisionTree, TopRank, and RISKOptimizer); and SolverTable, which allows you to do sensitivity analysis. All of these add-ins have been revised for Excel 2007. Booknews Developed by the authors for an MBA course taught at Indiana University, this text illustrates different types of statistical methods for analyzing data sets, touching on regression analysis, decision making under uncertainty, linear programming, and simulation. The material is example-driven with statistics problems solved using commercial add-ins for Excel. The CD-ROM contains StatPro 2.0 and the Decision Tools suite of software add-ins. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)