Quantitative methods for decision making using Excel

Quantitative Methods for Decision Making is a comprehensive guide that provides students with the key techniques and methodology they will need to successfully engage with all aspects of quantitative analysis and decision making; both on their undergraduate course, and in the larger context of their ...

Investigación operativa en administración y dirección de empresas

El libro aborda problemas de toma de decisiones empresariales y su resolución mediante modelos de programación lineal, entera, no lineal y multiobjetivo, así como técnicas multicriterio discretas para toma de decisiones colaborativa. Se centra en los conceptos y las técnicas necesarias para la correcta interpretación ...

Statistics with STATA

Version 1 2

CONTENTS: Preface. 1. Stata and Stata Resources. 2. Data Management. 3. Graphs. 4. Summary Statistics and Tables. 5. ANOVA and other Comparison Methods. 6. Linear Regression Analysis. 7. Regression Diagnostics. 8. Fitting Curves. 9. Robust Regression. 10. Logistic Regression. 11. Survival and Event-Count Models. 12 ...

Análisis y diseño de experimentos

Destinado al estudio del diseño de experimentos en centros de investigación y en procesos productivos en general (manufactura). De especial interés en los Grados de Ingeniería, Biología, Química y Ciencias exactas. Explica cuándo y cómo se debe aplicar cada tipo de diseño y cómo hacer ...

Gráficos estadísticos y mapas con R

R no es solamente el programa estadístico de uso general más potente y versátil, además de ser totalmente gratuito, sino que es también el que tiene la mayor variedad y potencia de gráficos. Los gráficos son una forma de presentar la información de modo que ...

Damned lies and statistics

untangling numbers from the media, politicians, and activists

Here, by popular demand, is the updated edition to Joel Best's classic guide to understanding how numbers can confuse us. In his new afterword, Best uses examples from recent policy debates to reflect on the challenges to improving statistical literacy. Since its publication ten ...

Financial statistics and mathematical finance

methods, models and applications

Mathematical finance has grown into a huge area of research which requires a lot of care and a large number of sophisticated mathematical tools. Mathematically rigorous and yet accessible to advanced level practitioners and mathematicians alike, it considers various aspects of the application of statistical ...

Credit scoring, response modeling, and insurance rating

a practical guide to forecasting consumer behavior

Within all large consumer facing organizations, most decisions about how to deal with people are made automatically by computerized decision making systems. Information about people, their lifestyle and past behavior are used to predict how they are expected to behave in the future. It can ...

Analítica Web

Pocos cambios había experimentado el análisis de los datos, hasta la entrada de la Analítica Web en los negocios con presencia en la red. Ahora es posible tomar las decisiones más ingeniosas basadas en el estudio inteligente de la información. La Analítica Web es una ...

Estadística aplicada

conceptos y ejercicios a través de Excel

La finalidad de este texto es presentar un contenido estadístico de nivel inicial-medio, pero a la vez amplio, que sirva de apoyo tanto a estudiantes universitarios como a profesionales que necesitan asentar sus conocimientos en estadística, independientemente de su área de formación (ciencias o letras ...

A simple guide to SPSS for political science

"A Simple Guide to SPSS for Political Science, International Edition" is a supplemental text that can be used with another statistics or research methods text. Designed for Political Science majors, "A Simple Guide to SPSS for Political Science, International Edition" helps students navigate through SPSS ...

Who's #1?

The science of rating and ranking

A website's ranking on Google can spell the difference between success and failure for a new business. NCAA football ratings determine which schools get to play for the big money in postseason bowl games. Product ratings influence everything from the clothes we wear to ...

Análisis dinámico mediante procesos estocásticos para actuarios y finanzas

El presente libro ofrece al lector un planteamiento simple pero riguroso de los modelos probabilísticos dinámicos básicos necesarios para el desarrollo del análisis actuarial y financiero. Así pues, los procesos estocásticos descritos con abundantes ejemplos de aplicación pueden ser de gran utilidad para estudiantes del ...

Collecting, managing, and assessing data

using sample surveys

Collecting, Managing, and Assessing Data Using Sample Surveys provides a thorough, step-by-step guide to the design and implementation of surveys. Beginning with a primer on basic statistics, the first half of the book takes readers on a comprehensive tour through the basics of survey design ...

Getting it wrong

how faulty monetary statistics undermine the fed, the financial system, and the economy

Blame for the recent financial crisis and subsequent recession has commonly been assigned to everyone from Wall Street firms to individual homeowners. It has been widely argued that the crisis and recession were caused by "greed" and the failure of mainstream economics. In Getting It ...

Stochastic methods for pension funds

Quantitative finance has become these last years a extraordinary field of research and interest as well from an academic point of view as for practical applications. At the same time, pension issue is clearly a major economical and financial topic for the next decades in ...

Survival analysis

models and applications

Survival analysis concerns sequential occurrences of events governed by probabilistic laws. Recent decades have witnessed many applications of survival analysis in various disciplines. This book introduces both classic survival models and theories along with newly developed techniques. Readers will learn how to perform analysis of ...

Técnicas de segmentación

conceptos, herramientas y aplicaciones

El objetivo de este libro es presentar las técnicas de segmentación más utilizadas hoy en día, aplicables a la obtención de perfiles, reconocimiento de patrones, análisis de mercados, análisis del fraude y otras disciplinas muy en boga en la actualidad. El contenido se dirige a ...

El cisne negro

el impacto de lo altamente improbable

¿Qué es un cisne negro? Para empezar, es un suceso improbable, sus consecuencias son importantes y todas las explicaciones que se puedan ofrecer a posteriori no tienen en cuenta el azar y sólo buscan encajar lo imprevisible en un modelo perfecto. El éxito de Google ...

Applied statistics for economists

This book is an undergraduate text that introduces students to commonly used statistical methods in economics. Using examples based on contemporary economic issues and readily available data, it not only explains the mechanics of the various methods, but also guides students to connect statistical results ...