Essentials of Business Statistics (Int'l Ed) (COLLEGE IE OVERRUNS) - Tapa blanda

Essentials of Business Statistics: Communicating with Numbers is a core statistics textbook that sparks student interest and bridges the gap between how statistics is taught and how practitioners think about and apply statistical methods. Throughout the text, the emphasis is on communicating with numbers rather than on number crunching. By incorporating the perspective of professional users, the subject matter is more relevant and the presentation of material more straightforward for students.

Sanjiv Jaggia is the associate dean of graduate programs and a professor of economics and finance at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California. After earning a Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington, in 1990, Dr. Jaggia spent 17 years at Suffolk University, Boston. In 2003, he became a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFAï¿). Dr. Jaggias research interests include empirical finance, statistics, and econometrics. He has published extensively in research journals, including the Journal of Empirical Finance, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, and Journal of Econometrics. Dr. Jaggias ability to communicate in the classroom has been acknowledged by several teaching awards. In 2007, he traded one coast for the other and now lives in San Luis Obispo, California, with his wife and daughter.

Alison Kelly is a professor of economics at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts. She received her B.A. degree from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts; her M.A. degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles; and her Ph.D. from Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Dr. Kelly has published in journals such as the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Macroeconomics, Review of Income and Wealth, Applied Financial Economics, and Contemporary Economic Policy. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and teaches review courses in quantitative methods to candidates preparing to take the CFA exam. Dr. Kelly has also served as a consultant for a number of companies; her most recent work focused on how large financial institutions satisfy requirements mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act. She resides in Hamilton, Massachusetts, with her husband and two children.