Ken Black

Business Statistics uses current real-world data to equip students with the business analytics techniques and quantitative decision-making skills required to make more thoughtful, information-based decisions in today's workplace. Helping the student understand business analytics and the role that business statistics plays in it, the book has infused the language of business analytics along with its definitions, approaches, and explanations throughout the text. Continuing the tradition of presenting and explaining business statistics using clear, complete, and student-friendly pedagogy, this international edition includes new chapter cases reinforcing the vibrancy and relevance of statistics. In addition, topical changes have been made in select chapters and problems have been revised in all the chapters.

Business Statistics continues the tradition of presenting and explaining the wonders of business statistics through a clear, complete, student-friendly pedagogy. In this 10th edition, author Ken Black uses current real-world data to equip students with the business analytics techniques and quantitative decision-making skills required to make smart decisions in today’s workplace.

When he was in fourth grade, young Ken Black wanted to be a Lutheran schoolteacher. He followed his calling later in life, teaching middle school students, seventh-graders, and served as a school principal at several schools. He then served as an administrative assistant at Trinity Lutheran Church in Roselle, Illinois. Ken's teaching experience, his work with seniors, and his observations that young people need a strong support system, eventually led to the formation of the AIMS Mentor Program, a school-based outreach to the youth of the community. Ken's passion for mentoring is well displayed in the stories he shares and how, through his support systems, he found his calling for mentoring. He explains how AIMS was structured, providing the details of what worked for AIMS as he and others reached out to mentor young people. This book is a useful tool to help you reach out to our youth in a positive way. Find out if mentoring is for you

Data-driven decisions are driving the global knowledge economy. To get the edge, graduates need the power of statistical analysis to create business insight. This fourth edition of Australasian Business Statistics empowers you to make informed decisions based on real-world issues. The cross-functional author team has channelled their expertise to create a concise 15-chapter structure that empowers students with the quantitative analysis techniques they need to succeed in tomorrow’s business world. It also provides examples from the local region, real business issues and applications. Australasian Business Statistics, Fourth edition, provides students with a highly practical problem-solving approach to prepare them for the real business world.

Every business area relies on an understanding of statistics to succeed. Statistics for Business and Economics by Carlos Cortinhas and Ken Black shows students that the proper application of statistics in the business world goes hand-in-hand with good decision making. Every statistical tool presented in this book has a business application set in a global context and the many learning features and easy to use structure will engage and reassure each business statistic student.

Throughout his career Fisher Black has described a view of business fluctuations based on the idea that a well-developed economy will be continually in equilibrium. In the essays that constitute this book he explores this idea thoroughly and reaches some surprising conclusions. Provocative and clearly written, Business Cycles and Equilibrium will be of value to students of macroeconomics as well as those of finance and the international economy.