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MindTap Business Statistics with XLSTAT, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Anderson/Sweeney/Williams/Camm/Cochran's Statistics for Business & Economics, 13th Edition

David R. Anderson, Dennis J. Sweeney, Thomas A. Williams, Jeffrey D. Camm, James J. Cochran

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MindTap Business Statistics with XLSTAT, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Anderson/Sweeney/Williams/Camm/Cochran's Statistics for Business & Economics 13th Edition by David R. Anderson/Dennis J. Sweeney/Thomas A. Williams/Jeffrey D. Camm/James J. Cochran

Overview

MindTap PROVIDES STUDENTS WITH TOOLS FOR BETTER TIME MANAGEMENT. Students can complete assignments whenever and wherever they are ready to learn with course material specially customized by you and streamlined in one proven, easy-to-use interface. MindTap gives students a roadmap to master decision-making in business statistics. Its vast array of resources, tools, and apps -- including all new Excel Online activities powered by Microsoft, new Exploring Statistics interactive visualizations, problem-solving videos, animated examples and practice opportunities, Interpreting the Results assignments note taking, and flashcards -- ensures learners have everything they need to maximize course success.

David R. Anderson

David R. Anderson is a leading author and professor emeritus of quantitative analysis in the College of Business Administration at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Anderson has served as head of the Department of Quantitative Analysis and Operations Management and as associate dean of the College of Business Administration. He was also coordinator of the college’s first executive program. In addition to introductory statistics for business students, Dr. Anderson taught graduate-level courses in regression analysis, multivariate analysis and management science. He also taught statistical courses at the Department of Labor in Washington, D.C. Dr. Anderson has received numerous honors for excellence in teaching and service to student organizations. He is the co-author of ten well-respected textbooks related to decision sciences and he actively consults with businesses in the areas of sampling and statistical methods. Born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, Dr. Anderson earned his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University.

Dennis J. Sweeney

Dennis J. Sweeney is professor emeritus of quantitative analysis and founder of the Center for Productivity Improvement at the University of Cincinnati. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he earned a B.S.B.A. degree from Drake University and his M.B.A. and D.B.A. degrees from Indiana University, where he was an NDEA fellow. Dr. Sweeney has worked in the management science group at Procter & Gamble and has been a visiting professor at Duke University. He also served as head of the Department of Quantitative Analysis and served four years as associate dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Sweeney has published more than 30 articles and monographs in the area of management science and statistics. The National Science Foundation, IBM, Procter & Gamble, Federated Department Stores, Kroger and Cincinnati Gas & Electric have funded his research, which has been published in journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Mathematical Programming and Decision Sciences. Dr. Sweeney has co-authored 10 textbooks in the areas of statistics, management science, linear programming and production and operations management.

Thomas A. Williams

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Jeffrey D. Camm

Jeffrey D. Camm is the Inmar Presidential Chair of Analytics and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty in the School of Business at Wake Forest University. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he holds a B.S. from Xavier University (Ohio) and a Ph.D. from Clemson University. Prior to joining the faculty at Wake Forest, Dr. Camm served on the faculty of the University of Cincinnati. He has also been a visiting scholar at Stanford University and a visiting professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Dr. Camm has published more than 45 papers in the general area of optimization applied to problems in operations management and marketing. He has published his research in Science, Management Science, Operations Research, The INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics and other professional journals. Dr. Camm was named the Dornoff Fellow of Teaching Excellence at the University of Cincinnati and he was the recipient of the 2006 INFORMS Prize for the Teaching of Operations Research Practice. A firm believer in practicing what he preaches, he has served as a consultant to numerous companies and government agencies. Dr. Camm served as editor-in-chief of INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics and is an INFORMS fellow.

James J. Cochran

James J. Cochran is Professor of Applied Statistics, the Mike and Cathy Mouron Research Chair and Associate Dean for Faculty and Research at the University of Alabama. Born in Dayton, Ohio, he earned his B.S., M.S. and M.B.A. degrees from Wright State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Cochran has served at The University of Alabama since 2014 and has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, Universidad de Talca, the University of South Africa and Pole Universitaire Leonard de Vinci. Dr. Cochran has published more than 50 papers in the development and application of operations research and statistical methods. He has published his research in Management Science, The American Statistician, Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, Annals of Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, BMJ Global Health and Statistics and Probability Letters. He was the 2008 recipient of the INFORMS Prize for the Teaching of Operations Research Practice and the 2010 recipient of the Mu Sigma Rho Statistical Education Award. He received the Founders Award in 2014 and the Karl E. Peace Award in 2015 from the American Statistical Association. In 2017 he received the American Statistical Association’s Waller Distinguished Teaching Career Award and in 2018 he received the INFORMS President’s Award. Dr. Cochran is an elected member of the International Statistics Institute, a fellow of the American Statistical Association and a fellow of INFORMS. A strong advocate for effective statistics and operations research education as a means of improving the quality of applications to real problems, Dr. Cochran has organized and chaired teaching workshops throughout the world.
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WHY DOES THIS MATTER? This one-minute intro video is designed to pique students’ interest by showing them how real companies use the statistical methods covered in the chapter to help them make informed decisions.

SECTION APPROACH WITH MEDIA-RICH ASSETS & PRACTICE: Students report that they’re more likely to read or skim material when it’s broken into more manageable chunks for them. Each chapter’s content is broken out into digestible sections in the learning path, which mirrors the structure of the Anderson/Sweeney/Williams titles. The sections can contain readings, embedded self-check quizzing, animated examples for more visual learners, and Show Me the Solution videos that align with Self-Test problems from the book. Each section concludes with opportunities for practice with problems crafted to enhance the progression of learning. These non-graded practice assignments include rich feedback and offer multiple attempts with algorithmic content.

MICROSOFT EXCEL ONLINE: Cengage Learning and Microsoft have partnered in MindTap to provide students with a uniform, authentic Excel experience. It provides instant feedback, built-in video tips, and easily accessible spreadsheet work. These new algorithmic activities offer pre-populated data directly in Microsoft Excel Online. Each student receives their own version of the problem to perform the necessary data calculations in Excel Online. Their work is constantly saved in Cengage cloud storage as a part of homework assignments in MindTap. These features allow you to spend more time teaching business statistics applications, and less time troubleshooting Excel.

EXPLORING STATISTICS: These offer instructors and students nearly 75 interactive visualizations that engage with ‘lean forward’ interactivity. Built using D3.js, a Javascript library that produces dynamic data visualizations in modern web browsers, Exploring Statistics offers instructors visual, interactive tools that they can use to help students ‘see’ the statistical concept being presented directly within MindTap. Select visualizations have a pre-built activity in the learning path within MindTap that allows students to manipulate the values, and then respond to questions that reinforce their understanding of the concept being conveyed. These activities can be assigned as practice or for a grade, and often offer an interactive, conceptual activity immediately following a reading section.

QUIZZING & ASSIGNMENTS: Once students have had the opportunity to practice what they’ve learned in each section, they tie it all together and complete a multiple-choice, chapter-level quiz to pinpoint areas of strength and weakness. The learning path then progresses to the chapter-level graded homework assignment. This assignment includes selected problems from the book’s end-of-chapter materials and offers a mix of evaluating both methods and application.

INTERPRETING THE RESULTS: For students, seeing the relevance of what they’re learning to the real world of business helps them stay more engaged in what they’re learning. Instructors also report that they’d like to see students be able to bridge the gap between understanding calculations and being able to use data to make informed business decisions. To close each chapter, the last item in the chapter learning path asks students to do just that – interpret data in order to make business decisions. Using the same company example introduced in the chapter’s opening video, this decision-making assignment puts students in an environment that requires them to interpret and make decisions based on the data provided in the company scenario. This activity brings the learning path full circle and helps students make a connection to how the study of business statistics applies to the real world of business.
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  • ISBN-10: 1305948025
  • ISBN-13: 9781305948020
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