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The Manager's Guide to Statistics
How can a busy manager use basic statistics to make better business decisions and avoid common mistakes in reading numbers?
At a glance
- Author
- Erol A. Pekoz
Why read it
- You will stop reading raw counts as proof of risk and learn to compare rates instead
- You will learn how far a sample average can sit from the true average, using the margin of error
- You will test whether a pattern in stock prices looks any different from pure chance
Who it is for
- A business student dreading Greek symbols in a statistics course
- A manager who must judge survey results and forecasts
- An analyst who uses Excel and wants to avoid misleading numbers
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