Brief Contents
Preface
About the Author
PART 1: Foundations of Business Analytics
1. Introduction to Business Analytics
2. Analytics on Spreadsheets
Part 2: Descriptive Analytics
3. Visualizing and Exploring Data
4. Descriptive Statistical Measures
5. Probability Distributions and Data Modeling
6. Sampling and Estimation
7. Statistical Inference
Part 3: Predictive Analytics
8. Trendlines and Regression Analysis
9. Forecasting Techniques
10. Introduction to Data Mining
11. Spreadsheet Modeling and Analysis
12. Monte Carlo Simulation and Risk Analysis
Part 4: Prescriptive Analytics
13. Linear Optimization
14. Applications of Linear Optimization
15. Integer Optimization
16. Decision Analysis
Supplementary Chapter A (online): Nonlinear and Non-Smooth Optimization
Supplementary Chapter B (online): Optimization Models with Uncertainty
Appendix A
Glossary
Index