The Practice of Statistics for Business and Economics


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This innovative textbook is designed to give students the tools they need to make data-informed, real-world business decisions practically from the first day of class, providing a foundation in data production and interpretation that supports their work throughout the course. Newly retitled The Practice of Statistics for Business and Economics to reflect the true scope of its coverage, this new third edition of the text is its most accomplish yet--a conceptually rich, mathematically accessible survey of basic statistical methods in a business/economics context that emphasizes working with data and mastering statistical reasoning.




Econometric Foundations Pack with CD-ROM


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The text and accompanying CD-ROM develop step by step a modern approach to econometric problems. They are aimed at talented upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals wishing to acquaint themselves with the pinciples and procedures for information processing and recovery from samples of economic data. The text fully provides an operational understanding of a rich set of estimation and inference tools, including tradional likelihood based and non-traditional non-likelihood based procedures, that can be used in conjuction with the computer to address economic problems.




Basic Statistics for Business & Economics


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Welcome to First Canadian Edition ofBasic Statistics for Business and Economics! As the name implies, theobjective of this textbookis to provide Canadian business students majoring in economics, finance, marketing, accounting, management, and other fields of business administration,with an introductory survey of the many business applications of descriptive and inferential statistics. Basic Statistics for Business and Economics introduces students to essential business applications, while maintaining a student oriented environment learning environment. Examples and problems are designed to teach the basics while remaing relevant to the real world.




Real Options Analysis Course


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Praise for Real Options Analysis Course "Dr. Mun's latest book is a logical extension of the theory and application presented in Real Options Analysis. More specifically, the Real Options Analysis Course presents numerous real options examples and provides the reader with step-by-step problem-solving techniques. After having read the book, readers will better understand the underlying theory and the opportunities for applying real option theory in corporate decision-making." -Chris D. Treharne, President, Gibraltar Business Appraisals, Inc. "This text provides an excellent follow up to Dr. Mun's first book, Real Options Analysis. The cases in Real Options Analysis Course provide numerous examples of how the use of real options and the Real Options Analysis Toolkit software can assist in the valuation of strategic and managerial flexibility in a variety of arenas." -Charles T. Hardy, PhD, Chief Financial Officer & Director of Business Development, Panorama Research, Inc. "Most of us come to real options from the perspective of our own areas of expertise. Mun's great skill with this book is in making real options analysis understandable, relevant, and immediately applicable to the field within which you are working." -Robert Fourt, Partner, Gerald Eve (UK) "Mun provides a practical step-by-step guide to applying simulation and real options analysis-invaluable to those of us who are no longer satisfied with conventional valuation approaches alone." -Fred Kohli, Head of Portfolio Management, Syngenta Crop Protection Ltd. (Switzerland)




Applied Regression Analysis for Business and Economics


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Disk includes: Data sets for the exercises in the text, formatted in ASCII, MINITAB, SAS, Microsoft Excel, and STATA form and accessible to any statistical software package.




CD-ROMs in Print


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Ensuring Quality to Gain Access to Global Markets


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In a modern world with rapidly growing international trade, countries compete less based on the availability of natural resources, geographical advantages, and lower labor costs and more on factors related to firms' ability to enter and compete in new markets. One such factor is the ability to demonstrate the quality and safety of goods and services expected by consumers and confirm compliance with international standards. To assure such compliance, a sound quality infrastructure (QI) ecosystem is essential. Jointly developed by the World Bank Group and the National Metrology Institute of Germany, this guide is designed to help development partners and governments analyze a country's quality infrastructure ecosystems and provide recommendations to design and implement reforms and enhance the capacity of their QI institutions.




Doing Business 2020


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Seventeen in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2020 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity.




OpenIntro Statistics


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The OpenIntro project was founded in 2009 to improve the quality and availability of education by producing exceptional books and teaching tools that are free to use and easy to modify. We feature real data whenever possible, and files for the entire textbook are freely available at openintro.org. Visit our website, openintro.org. We provide free videos, statistical software labs, lecture slides, course management tools, and many other helpful resources.




Social Science Research


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This book is designed to introduce doctoral and graduate students to the process of conducting scientific research in the social sciences, business, education, public health, and related disciplines. It is a one-stop, comprehensive, and compact source for foundational concepts in behavioral research, and can serve as a stand-alone text or as a supplement to research readings in any doctoral seminar or research methods class. This book is currently used as a research text at universities on six continents and will shortly be available in nine different languages.