Business Analytics for Managers (Record no. 106248)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781461404064
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Standard number or code 10.1007/978-1-4614-0406-4
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Classification number QA276-280
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Subject category code PBT
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Subject category code BUS061000
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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 330.015195
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Jank, Wolfgang.
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Title Business Analytics for Managers
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Statement of responsibility, etc by Wolfgang Jank.
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-- New York, NY :
-- Springer New York,
-- 2011.
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Extent XI, 189p. 100 illus., 63 illus. in color.
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Series statement Use R
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Formatted contents note Introduction -- Exploring & Discovering Data -- Data Modeling I - Basics -- Data Modeling II - Making Models More Flexible -- Data Modeling III - Making Models More Selective -- Data Modeling IV - Fine Tuning Your Model -- Introduction to the Statistical Software R.
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Summary, etc The practice of business is changing. More and more companies are amassing larger and larger amounts of data, and storing them in bigger and bigger data bases. Consequently, successful applications of data-driven decision making are plentiful and increasing on a daily basis. This book will motivate the need for data and data-driven solutions, using real data from real business scenarios. It will allow managers to better interact with personnel specializing in analytics by exposing managers and decision makers to the key ideas and concepts of data-driven decision making.   Business Analytics for Managers conveys ideas and concepts from both statistics and data mining with the goal of extracting knowledge from real business data and actionable insight for managers. Throughout, emphasis placed on conveying data-driven thinking.  While the ideas discussed in this book can be implemented using many different software solutions from many different vendors, it also provides a quick-start to one of the most powerful software solutions available.   The main goals of this book are as follows: ·         To excite managers and decision makers about the potential that resides in data and the value that data analytics can add to business processes. ·         To provide managers with a basic understanding of the main concepts of data analytics and a common language to convey data-driven decision problems so they can better communicate with personnel specializing in data mining or statistics.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Statistics.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Economics
General subdivision Statistics.
650 14 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Statistics.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance.
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element SpringerLink (Online service)
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Title Springer eBooks
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Display text Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9781461404057
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Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0406-4
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