Understanding Business Statistics

About the Authors

Ned Freed

With more than 30 years of experience as an award-winning teacher and researcher in the area of statistics and quantitative methods, Dr. Ned Freed has served on the faculties of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and the University of Portland in Portland, Oregon. Professor Freed graduated from Boston College with a BS in mathematics, earned an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and holds a Ph. D. in management science from the University of Colorado. He has authored a number of articles dealing with mathematical programming applications to statistical problems and has worked extensively with Prof. Fred Glover at the University of Colorado to produce linear programming alternatives to conventional methods of multivariate statistics.

Stacey Jones

Stacey Jones is a member of the Economics Department of the Albers School of Business and Economics at Seattle University, where she teaches several sections of introductory statistics and quantitative methods courses each year. Her students speak highly of her clarity, humor, and concreteness. Many of her courses incorporate service-learning projects that help students understand the relevance of statistical methods in addressing real-world problems. She holds a BA in philosophy from Carleton College and a Ph. D. in economics from Stanford University, and has authored ...