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Business Analytics
Applied Modelling and Prediction

  • James Abdey - London School of Economics & Political Science, UK
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December 2023 | 704 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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).

 
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

Supplements

Chapter Overview Videos
Watch James Abdey's YouTube playlist, with videos summarising each chapter of the book. 

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