Working With Sample Data: Exploration and Inference

by Priscilla Chaffe-Stengel, Donald N. Stengel

As a manager or an analyst, you routinely collect and examine key performance measures to better understand your company operations andto make good decisions. But rendering the complexity of operations datainto a coherent account of significant events requires the ability to workwell with raw data and to make appropriate inferences. This book canhelp. This book details the methods to help you understand statistical techniques for analyzing data and to make inferences with sound reasoning.By applying these fundamental methods yourself, rather than turningover both the data and the responsibility for their analysis and interpretationto an expert, you can develop a richer understanding and potentiallygain better control over your business environment. You’ll catch on quickerwith the use of computers and spreadsheet software, and the authorsprovide examples that will show you how to explore data and makes inferenceswith Microsoft Excel.

162 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 5, 2011