TY  - GEN
AU  - Abdey, James
TI  - Business analytics: applied modelling and prediction
SN  - 9781529774092
U1  - 658.403 
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Sage Publication
KW  - Business analytics
N1  - Table of contents:
Chapter 1 Decision-making Under Uncertainty    Chapter 2 Descriptive Statistics    Chapter 3 Data Visualisation    Chapter 4 Probability    Chapter 5 Probability Distributions    Chapter 6 Decision Tree Analysis and Game Theory    Chapter 7 Sampling and Sampling Distributions    Chapter 8 Opinion Research    Chapter 9 Estimation    Chapter 10 Hypothesis Testing    Chapter 11 Bivariate Analysis    Chapter 12 Analysis of Variance    Chapter 13 Linear Regression    Chapter 14 Multiple Regression    Chapter 15 Time-series Analysis and Forecasting    Chapter 16 Discriminant Analysis    Chapter 17 Factor Analysis    Chapter 18 Cluster Analysis    Chapter 19 Constrained Optimisation Models    Chapter 20 Monte Carlo Simulation    Appendix A Common Excel Functions    Appendix B Compendium of Probability Distributions

(https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/business-analytics/book277649#contents)
N2  - Analytical skills are in high demand but short supply. Through a unique combination of data visualisation and analytics (both theoretical and applied), this ground-breaking textbook provides you with the expertise to analyse, interpret and communicate data with confidence, to inform real-world decision-making.

Key features include:
• Clear signalling of introductory, intermediate and advanced content
• An entire chapter dedicated to data visualisation, introducing Tableau for storytelling with data
• Motivational cases throughout showing how the theory relates to real life
• A wide variety of end-of-chapter exercises to test your understanding of the topics covered
• Online examples and datasets to help you master your analytics skills through hands-on learning

Lecturers also have  access a range of online resources developed to support teaching, including a Teaching Guide, solutions to end-of-chapter exercises, PowerPoints and a testbank.

Business Analytics: Applied Modelling and Prediction is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Business Analytics. This book uses Excel® and Tableau®.  

Dr James Abdey is an Associate Professor (Education) in Statistics at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

(https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/business-analytics/book277649)
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