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Basic Business Statistics: A Casebook

Author: Dean P Foster

Providing an introduction to modern data analysis techniques, these casebooks can be used as the primary or secondary text for elementary business statistics courses. Statistics has the reputation of being a boring, complicated, and confusing mix of mathematical formulas accompanied by computers used to do something. This casebook nad its companion volume Business Analysis Usuing Regression change that impression by showing how statistics gives insights and ansswers interesting business questions. The material is organized into classes of related case studies that develop a single key idea of statistics. The authors begin by discussing an application that motivates the key idea. Students are then shown how to analyze a data set. The emphasis of the analysis is to answer important business questions with statistics rather than talk about statistics. Basic Business Statistics introduces ideas often not emphasized in elementary texts such as issues of robustness, the use of transformations to simplify problems, sampling bias, confounding, kernel density, quality control, and scatterplot matrices. Business Analysis with Regression includes a discussion of scatterplot smoothing, prediction intervals for new observations, collinearity, logistic regression, nonlinear models, and multiple comparisons in regression. The text includes directions for data analyses with JMP and an appendix with Minitab commands. Professors Dean P. Foster, Robert A. Stine, and Richard P. Waterman are members of the Department of Statistics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania."The manuscripts are divided into "classes" which tackle various statistical concepts. Material becomes increasingly complex as the data in later sections exhibit multiple deviations from ideal conditions. The casebooks use a combination of explanatory text and software output to guide the student. Almost no mathematics appears in these volumes; the authors make traditional texts available to their students who are curious about the technical details...I anticipate students will wholeheartedly endorse the FSW casebooks. The material is easy to digest as, for instance, the authors cleverly interweave probability, the standard error of the mean, and control charts. The casebooks effectively relay the message that statistics is relevant and doable. Ideally, that is the message that should be sent in all introductory business statistics courses." Marlene Smith, University of Colorado-Denver

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Class 1	Overview and Foundations	1
Class 2	Statistical Summaries of Data	5
Class 3	Sources of Variation	41
Class 4	Standard Error	65
Class 5	Confidence Intervals	93
Class 6	Sampling	107
Class 7	Making Decisions	127
Class 8	Designing Tests for Better Comparisons	155
Class 9	Confounding Effects in Tests: A Case Study	169
Class 10	Covariance, Correlation, and Portfolios	185
Class 11	A Preview of Regression	213
	Assignments	227
App	Use with Minitab	236
	Index	241

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The Practical Intrusion Detection Handbook

Author: Paul E Proctor

The definitive guide to understanding, selecting, and deploying intrusion detection in the enterprise!

• Product selection, planning, and operations
• Filled with real-life cases and stories of intrusion detection systems in action
• Covers host-based and network-based intrusion detection

Foreword by Dorothy Denning, author of Cryptography and Data Security and Information Warfare and Security

Technical Edit by Ira Winkler, author of Corporate Espionage

In The Practical Intrusion Detection Handbook, one of the field's leading experts shows exactly how to detect, deter, and respond to security threats using intrusion detection systems. Using real-world case studies and practical checklists, Paul E. Proctor shows what intrusion detection software can achieve, and how to integrate it into a comprehensive strategy for protecting information and e-commerce assets. No other guide to intrusion detection offers all this:

• Practical coverage of host-based, network-based, and hybrid solutions
• Detailed selection criteria and sample RFPs
• Key factors associated with successful deployment
• Intrusion detection in action: response, surveillance, damage assessment, data forensics, and beyond
• Six myths of intrusion detection — and the realities

Whether you're a senior IT decision-maker, system administrator, or infosecurity specialist, intrusion detection is a key weapon in your security arsenal. Now, there's a start-to-finish guide to making the most of it: The Practical Intrusion Detection Handbook by Paul E. Proctor.

"Intrusion detection has gone from a theoretical concept to a practical solution, from a research dream to a major product area, from an idea worthy of study to a key element of the national plan for cyber defense. . . Nobody brought that about more than Paul Proctor. . . Paul brings his considerable knowledge and experience with commercial intrusion detection products to this first-of-a-kind book."
—From the Foreword by Dorothy Denning

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Using examples from business this book shows what intrusion detection software can achieve and how to integrate it into a total strategy for information protection. Coverage includes host-based, network-based, and hybrid solutions, selection criteria and sample RFPs, and examples of intrusion detection in action in response, surveillance, damage assessment, and data forensics. Proctor has worked in intrusion detection for 15 years. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)