Introduction to Management Science and Business Analytics: A Modeling and Case Studies Approach with Spreadsheets

Hiller's Management Science and Business Analytics: A Modeling and Case  Studies Approach with Spreadsheets, 7e in its newest edition introduces  both Management Science and Business Analytics in chapter 1 emphasizing  the close relationship between them. The new Chapter 2 is an overview of  how MS and BA professionals analyze problems and their similarities,  chapter 3 is a new chapter on the role of data mining, clustering  classification prediction methodology, some algorithms for implementing  this methodology, a powerful SW package for data mining and more.  Chapter 4 will continue to focus on key techniques of Business Analytics  to complete part 1 of the text and the final chapters are focused on  Prescriptive and Predictive Analytics based on models based on Linear  programming models, Other Certainty Models, and Uncertainty Models.