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Business Analytics: Data Analysis & Decision
Making,


7th Edition. S. Christian Albright, Wayne L.

Winston




Business Analytics: Data Analysis & Decision Making,


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Chapter 1. Introduction to Business Analytics

1. The decision-making themes covered in Business Analytics: Data Analysis & Decision Making include which of the following?
a. optimization techniques b. decision analysis with uncertainty
c. structured sensitivity analysis d. all of these choices
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy | Bloom's: Knowledge
TOPICS: A-Head: 1-2 Overview of the Book OTHER:
BUSPROG: Analytic | DISC: Decision Making

2. Which statement is not true?
a. Dealing with uncertainty includes measuring uncertainty.
b. Dealing with uncertainty includes modeling uncertainty explicitly into the analysis.
c. Dealing with uncertainty includes eliminating uncertainty by using the normal probability distribution.
d. Dealing with uncertainty requires a basic understanding of probability.
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy | Bloom's: Knowledge
TOPICS: A-Head: 1.2 Overview of the Book
OTHER: BUSPROG: Analytic | DISC: Decision Making

3. What is not one of the important themes of your Business Analytics: Data Analysis & Decision Making text?
a. data analysis b. dealing with uncertainty
c. decision making d. data mining
ANSWER: d POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy | Bloom's: Knowledge
TOPICS: A-Head: 1.2 Overview of the Book OTHER:
BUSPROG: Analytic | DISC: Decision Making

4. Data analysis includes:
a. data description b. data inference
c. the search for relationships in data d. all of these choices
ANSWER: d POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy |
Bloom's: Knowledge
TOPICS: A-Head: 1.2 Overview of the Book
OTHER: BUSPROG: Analytic | DISC: Decision Making

5. Which of the following is not one of the steps in the modeling process?

,a. Select the scale for the model.
b. Collect and summarize data.




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, c. Verify the model.
d. Present the results.
e. Implement the model and update it through time.
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy | Bloom's: Comprehension
TOPICS: A-Head: 1.2 Overview of the Book
OTHER: BUSPROG: Analytic | DISC: Decision Making

6. Which of the following would not be included under data analysis?
a. measuring uncertainty b. data description
c. data inference d. search for relationships
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy | Bloom's: Comprehension
TOPICS: A-Head: 1.2 Overview of the Book OTHER: BUSPROG:
Analytic | DISC: Decision Making

7. The decision making process includes:
a. optimization techniques for problems with no uncertainty
b. decision analysis for problems with uncertainty
c. sensitivity analysis
d. all of these choices
ANSWER: d POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy | Bloom's: Knowledge
TOPICS: A-Head: 1.2 Overview of the Book
OTHER: BUSPROG: Analytic | DISC: Decision Making

8. Which tool is an Exc
® el add-in for performing what-if analyses?

a. PrecisionTree
b. TopRank
c. Solver
d. @Risk
e. StatTools
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy | Bloom's: Comprehension
TOPICS: A-Head: 1.2 Overview of the Book OTHER: BUSPROG:
Analytic | DISC: Decision Making

9. Which of the following statements are true?
a. Three important themes run through the book: data analysis, decision making, and uncertainty.
b. Data analysis includes data description, data inference, and the searching for relationships
in data

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