Business & economics / Statistics

The Leading Indicators

by Zachary Karabell – Simon & Schuster (February 11, 2014)

How did we come by the “leading indicators” we place such stock in? We allocate trillions of dollars and make public policy and personal decisions based upon them, but what do they really tell us?

“The...

The Misbehavior of Markets

by Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson & Jason Olazabal – Basic Books (March 26, 2019)

Mathematical superstar and inventor of fractal geometry, Benoit Mandelbrot, has spent the past forty years studying the underlying mathematics of space and natural patterns. What many of his followers don't...

Why We're Wrong About Nearly Everything

by Bobby Duffy & Nicholas Tecosky – Basic Books (November 26, 2019)

A leading social researcher explains why humans so consistently misunderstand the outside world

How often are women harassed? What percentage of the population are immigrants? How bad is unemployment? These...

Panicology

by Hugh Aldersey-Williams & Simon Briscoe – Skyhorse (May 01, 2009)

Are you afraid you might succumb to bird flu? Worried that a life of poverty awaits you in old age? Concerned that you might not be having as much sex as the French? Anxious that our planet is under threat from...

Statistics 101

by David Borman – Adams Media (December 18, 2018)

A comprehensive guide to statistics—with information on collecting, measuring, analyzing, and presenting statistical data—continuing the popular 101 series.

Data is everywhere. In the age of the internet...

Estimation of Uncertainty of Wind Energy Predictions

by David Zastrau – Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften (February 28, 2017)

Currently, a new generation of fuel-efficient ships, which use wind force in addition to conventional propulsion technology, is being developed. This study describes a mathematical method for a probabilistic...

An Introduction to Statistics using Microsoft Excel

by Dan Remenyi, George Onofrei & Joseph English – ACPIL (June 01, 2011)

In this second edition of An Introduction to Statistics using Microsoft Excel the authors have introduced the concept of thinking statistically, which offers a further set of insights relating to how the wider...

HBR Guide to Data Analytics Basics for Managers (HBR Guide Series)

by Harvard Business Review – Harvard Business Review Press (March 13, 2018)

How to use data for better decisions--from gathering the right information to making sense of the numbers to communicating your findings and getting buy-in.

• Provides practical advice for managers on how to use...

Levers of Control

by Robert Simons – Harvard Business Review Press (November 01, 1994)

Based on a ten-year examination of control systems in over 50 U.S. businesses, this book broadens the definition of control and establishes a critical bridge between the disciplines of strategy and accounting...

Business Statistics (Speedy Study Guides)

by Speedy Publishing – Dot EDU (April 24, 2015)

Your business statistics pretty much tells you about trends and to use that information make logical solutions to problems. This guide gives a refresher on the types of data and their sources, the importance...

Business Statistics (Speedy Study Guides)

by Speedy Publishing – Dot EDU (January 29, 2015)

A business statistics study guide will help students by laying out the specifics points within the subject. It provides the solid information to memorize and test oneself against, without the general filler...

Understanding Statistics As A Language

by Robert Andrews & Larry A. Standridge – eBookIt.com (February 21, 2013)

This book has successfully taught introductory statistics to non-mathematicians who had previously failed two semester of statistics or had completed the courses with no idea of what they had done. It uses a...