Essentials of Business Statistics (5th Edition) – PDF

About The Author

Bruce L. Bowerman

Dr. Bruce L. Bowerman (late) was a professor of decision sciences at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He got his Ph.D. in statistics from Iowa State University in 1974, and had over 40 years of experience teaching basic statistics, time series forecasting, regression analysis, survey sampling, and design of experiments to both graduate and undergraduate students. In 1987, Dr. Bowerman got an Outstanding Teaching award from the Miami University, and in 1992 he received an Effective Educator award from the Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration. Together with Richard T. O’Connell, Bruce has written over 15 textbooks. These include Forecasting, Time Series, and Regression: An Applied Approach (also coauthored with Anne B. Koehler); Forecasting and Time Series: An Applied Approach; and Linear Statistical Models: An Applied Approach. He also published a number of articles in time series forecasting, applied stochastic processes, and statistical education.

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Emily Murphree

Dr. Emily S. Murphree is an associate professor of statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Stats at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She earned her Ph.D. in statistics from the University of North Carolina and does research in applied probability. Dr. Murphree received Miami’s College of Arts and Science Distinguished
Educator Award in 1998. In 1996, she was named one of Oxford’s Citizens of the Year for organizing annual Sonia Kovalevsky Mathematical Sciences Days for area high school girls and for her work with Habitat for Humanity. Her enthusiasm for hiking in wilderness areas of the West motivates her current research on estimating animal population sizes.

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Richard T. O'Connell

Dr. Richard T. O’Connell is an associate professor of decision sciences at the Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He has over 30 years of experience teaching basic statistics, regression analysis, time series forecasting, statistical quality control, and process improvement, and design of experiments to both graduate and undergraduate business students. He has also taught workshops dealing with statistical process control and process improvement for a variety of companies in the Midwest. In 2000, Dr. O’Connell got an Effective Educator award from the Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration. Together with Professor Bruce Bowerman, he has written over 14 textbooks. These include Essentials of Business Statistics, Forecasting and Time Series: An Applied Approach; and Linear Statistical Models: An Applied Approach. Richard has published a number of articles in the area of innovative statistical education. He is one of the first college instructors in the USA to integrate statistical process control and process improvement methodology into his business statistics course.

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