Business Statistics, Analytics & Decision-Making Essentials: Complete Data Analysis, Visualization, Predictive Tools & Strategic Planning for Business Professionals - Set of 3 Books

Business Statistics, Analytics & Decision-Making Essentials: Complete Data Analysis, Visualization, Predictive Tools & Strategic Planning for Business Professionals - Set of 3 Books

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Elevate your business decision-making with this set of 3 essential management books, designed to give you practical knowledge in statistics, analytics, and decision-making. Whether you are a beginner, manager, or entrepreneur, this bundle equips you with the tools to analyze data, interpret trends, and make informed business choices.

Business Statistics Essentials You Always Wanted to Know

  • Master core statistical concepts, including regression analysis and hypothesis testing
  • Learn to interpret data for finance, marketing, operations, and strategic planning
  • Apply statistical tools to measure business performance and manage risk effectively

Business Analytics Essentials You Always Wanted to Know

  • Explore predictive techniques and data visualization for smarter decisions
  • Gain practical knowledge through real-world case studies and examples
  • Access online resources with step-by-step implementation guidance

Decision Making Essentials You Always Wanted to Know

  • Understand cognitive biases, heuristics, and Prospect Theory
  • Apply game theory, Bayes' Theorem, and scenario planning to complex choices
  • Master multi-attribute decision-making methods, including SMART and Even Swaps

With a focus on practical application, this set empowers readers to bridge theory with real-world business challenges. From analyzing datasets to making high-stakes decisions, you’ll gain confidence, sharpen your analytical skills, and enhance your business acumen.

Step into a world where data-driven insights meet effective decision-making, and transform how you approach every business challenge.

Bibliographic Details

Pages: 784 Pages

Paperback (ISBN): 9781636516066

Category: Business & Economics

Author: Mark Koscinski, Dr. Bianca Szasz , Ms. Riyanka Jain, Vibrant Publishers

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Author

Dr. Bianca Szasz is a Ph.D. holder in Space Engineering. In over 14 years of experience in engineering and a dedicated focus of 4 years in data analytics, she has used data analytics in a variety of innovative projects, like post-processing of the wind tunnel test results and the analysis of high enthalpy heating test results. Her enthusiasm for data analytics eventually expanded beyond using it for work. Now she is passionate about educating the future generation of data analysts.

Mark Koscinski is an assistant professor of accounting practice at Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA, where he teaches a graduate level Decision Analysis class and several advanced accounting classes. He is a certified public accountant, and holds a BA with high honors and MBA from Rutgers University and a doctorate from Drew University. Prior to joining the faculty at Moravian College, Mark was a chief financial officer of various public and private organizations in the defense contracting, toy, investment banking, and banking industries. He has over forty years of experience in the business world, and has supervised every operation of an organization including sales and marketing. Mark is passionate about sharing his knowledge with his students. His background and experience gives him a unique position to write on management topics that are easy to understand for non-MBA graduates.

Ms. Riyanka Jain has 10+ years of experience in Statistics, Marketing, International Business, and Econometrics. She has previously authored two well-received books.

Vibrant Publishers is focused on presenting the best texts for learning about technology and business as well as books for test preparation. Categories include programming, operating systems and other texts focused on IT. In addition, a series of books helps professionals in their own disciplines learn the business skills needed in their professional growth.

Vibrant Publishers has a standardized test preparation series covering the GMAT, GRE and SAT, providing ample study and practice material in a simple and well organized format, helping students get closer to their dream universities.

Series

The Self-Learning Management Series is designed to help students, new managers, career switchers, and entrepreneurs learn essential management lessons and covers every aspect of business, from HR to Finance to Marketing to Operations across any and every industry. Each book includes basic fundamentals, important concepts, and standard and well-known principles as well as practical ways of application of the subject matter.

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Lorraine Pemberton (USA)
The Only Three-Book Professional Development Set I Recommend Without Reservation

I am an executive coach based in Portland, Oregon, who works with senior leaders across finance, operations, and strategy functions. Building quantitative literacy and rigorous decision-making capability in clients who did not study quantitative disciplines is one of the most persistent challenges in my practice. This three-book set has become my most reliable recommendation for that challenge. Mark Koscinski's Decision Making Essentials is the most practically useful decision framework book I have encountered in twenty years of coaching - his CPA and former CFO background combined with his doctorate from Drew University and teaching at Moravian College produce a text that reads like mentorship from someone who has navigated every type of organizational decision. Ms. Jain's statistics volume provides the analytical foundation. Dr. Szasz's analytics volume adds the visualization and predictive tools. Together, at 784 pages across three well-matched volumes, this set builds the complete quantitative and decision-making capability that most executives never formally develop. Outstanding value.

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Vincent Harrington (USA)
Three Books That Built a Complete Quantitative Skillset for Our Leadership Team

I am a VP of Strategy at a technology company in San Jose who has been investing in building quantitative reasoning and analytical decision-making skills across our senior leadership team. Finding a single bundled resource that covers business statistics, analytics, and decision-making frameworks at a depth appropriate for senior professionals - but written accessibly enough for leaders without quantitative backgrounds - proved difficult until this set. Ms. Riyanka Jain's Business Statistics Essentials covers regression analysis, hypothesis testing, and data interpretation with the clarity that her 10-plus years across Statistics, Marketing, and Econometrics make possible. Dr. Bianca Szasz's Business Analytics volume provides the visualization and predictive analytics layer. Mark Koscinski's Decision Making Essentials - authored by a CPA, former CFO, and doctorate holder with 40-plus years of executive experience - addresses cognitive biases, Prospect Theory, game theory, and multi-attribute decision methods with the authority that only someone who has actually made high-stakes organizational decisions can bring. An exceptional three-book investment.

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Sowmya Krishnasamy (India)
The Three-Volume Set That Transformed My MBA Coursework Performance

I am a full-time MBA student specializing in Business Analytics at a management institute in Chennai and used this three-book set as a supplementary resource across three separate courses this semester. Each volume complemented a different module in my curriculum. Ms. Jain's Business Statistics Essentials was the most referenced text in my Quantitative Methods course - the regression analysis and hypothesis testing chapters are organized with an exceptional clarity that my primary textbook lacked. Dr. Szasz's Business Analytics Essentials supported my Analytics Strategy module with real-world case studies and practical visualization guidance. Mark Koscinski's Decision Making Essentials was the most transformative personal read - his treatment of Bayes' Theorem, scenario planning, and the SMART and Even Swaps multi-attribute decision methods gave me a structured decision framework that I now apply instinctively to case study analysis. At 784 combined pages, this set covers more analytically relevant ground than most full courses.

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Mustafa Ayd?n (Turkey)
A High-Value Three-Book Set for Building Data Literacy Across Turkish Corporations

I lead the corporate learning and development function at a manufacturing group headquartered in Eskişehir and have been designing a structured quantitative upskilling track for our middle and senior management layers. This three-book set became the curriculum backbone for our ten-week program. Mark Koscinski's Decision Making Essentials was the most impactful volume for our management participants - his 40-plus years of executive experience across banking, defense contracting, and toy industries ground the cognitive bias and decision framework content in genuine organizational complexity. Ms. Jain's Business Statistics volume gave our analysts the statistical foundations they needed for performance measurement and risk management. Dr. Szasz's Business Analytics Essentials added the practical predictive techniques and data visualization skills that completed the analytical toolkit. All three volumes feature accessible language and chapter quizzes that supported self-paced team learning effectively throughout the program.

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Subhashish Mukherjee (India)
Three Books That Finally Connected Statistics, Analytics, and Decisions for Me

I am a senior financial analyst at a private equity firm in Kolkata who had strong technical skills in financial modeling but significant gaps in statistical reasoning, analytics methodology, and structured decision-making frameworks. This three-book set addressed all three gaps in a well-sequenced way. Ms. Jain's Business Statistics Essentials introduced me to regression, hypothesis testing, and data interpretation in a way that connected directly to the financial performance measurement work I do daily. Dr. Szasz's Business Analytics Essentials gave me the data visualization and predictive analytics vocabulary I needed to engage more credibly with our portfolio companies' data teams. Mark Koscinski's Decision Making Essentials was the volume I least expected to find valuable - and the one I found most transformative. His treatment of Prospect Theory, cognitive biases in financial contexts, and Bayesian reasoning under uncertainty spoke directly to decisions I make every quarter. A genuinely eye-opening three-book set.

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Douglas Kincaid (USA)
Three Books That Finally Closed the Gap Between Data and Boardroom Decisions

I am a CFO at a technology firm in San Jose who has long believed that the gap between what data teams produce and what executives actually use in decision-making is a training problem. This three-book set confirmed that belief and offered a solution. Mark Koscinski's Decision Making Essentials resonated most personally - as a fellow finance and accounting professional, his treatment of Prospect Theory, cognitive biases in financial decisions, and Bayesian reasoning under uncertainty felt immediately familiar and actionable. Dr. Szasz's Data Analytics volume gave me a stronger vocabulary for engaging with our analytics team's outputs, particularly around visualization and predictive technique selection. Ms. Jain's Business Statistics Essentials reinforced the quantitative foundations I had not formally revisited since graduate school. A thoughtfully authored and highly practical three-book investment.

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Rajendra Balakrishnan (India)
Three Books That Built Genuine Quantitative Confidence in Our Management Team

I run the learning and development function at a large FMCG company in Kolkata and was tasked with building quantitative reasoning skills across our middle management layer. This three-book set became the foundation of that program over a twelve-week cohort. Ms. Jain's Business Statistics volume gave our managers a solid foundation in regression analysis and data interpretation that most had never formally studied. Dr. Szasz's analytics book built on that with practical big data, visualization, and ethical data usage content that was highly applicable to our reporting workflows. Mark Koscinski's Decision Making Essentials was the most transformative volume for our managers - his treatment of cognitive biases, Prospect Theory, and multi-attribute decision methods like SMART and Even Swaps gave our team a structured language for the decisions they make every day. A highly recommended professional development set.

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Pamela Norwood (USA)
The Most Complete Business Intelligence Toolkit I Have Found in Three Books

I am a senior strategy manager at a healthcare organization in Atlanta and have spent years looking for a single resource that covers statistics, analytics, and decision-making in one cohesive package without requiring a quantitative academic background. This three-book set delivers exactly that. Ms. Riyanka Jain's Business Statistics Essentials covers regression, hypothesis testing, and probability with clear, business-relevant explanations that made concepts I had always found intimidating finally click. Dr. Bianca Szasz's Data Analytics volume connects those statistical foundations to real-world visualization and predictive tools with the authority of 14-plus years of engineering and analytics experience. Mark Koscinski's Decision Making Essentials - authored by a CPA, former CFO, and Ph.D. holder with 40-plus years of executive experience - is the standout volume for any professional who needs to move from data to decisions. An exceptional trio.

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Volkan Cetin (Turkey )
A Powerful Trio for Building Data and Decision Literacy in Organizations

I lead the business intelligence function at a manufacturing conglomerate in Bursa and have been building structured data literacy across our senior management team. This three-book set served as the primary resource for that initiative. Dr. Bianca Szasz's Data Analytics Essentials provided a comprehensive treatment of data tools, visualization, legal frameworks, and ethical considerations that our managers needed to engage responsibly with the data outputs our team produces. Ms. Jain's Business Statistics volume gave the analytical reasoning foundation, while Mark Koscinski's Decision Making Essentials - informed by his 40-plus years of banking and defense contracting experience - provided the cognitive and strategic decision-making framework that tied everything together. At 784 pages across three well-matched volumes, this set offers exceptional value for corporate learning programs.

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Vaishali Godbole (India)
The Decision-Making Volume Is Unlike Anything Else at This Level

I am an associate professor of management at a business school in Pune and have been evaluating this three-book set for potential use across two courses in our MBA program. Each volume is strong independently but the Decision Making Essentials by Mark Koscinski is exceptional in a way that deserves specific mention. His coverage of Bayes' Theorem, game theory, scenario planning, and multi-attribute decision tools like Even Swaps and the SMART method gives MBA students the kind of rigorous, practical decision framework that most management courses discuss but rarely teach through structured exercises. Ms. Jain's Business Statistics volume is equally well-organized for academic use, and Dr. Szasz's analytics content adds applied relevance. A well-curated set that I have now recommended as supplementary reading across three MBA courses.

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Veronica Haines (USA)

I run a boutique strategy consulting practice in Portland, Oregon, and recommend reading resources to clients who want to build stronger internal analytical capabilities. This three-book set is now my top recommendation for non-MBA professionals who need to think more rigorously about data and decisions. Mark Koscinski's decision-making volume is exceptional - his background as a former CFO and current accounting professor at Moravian College gives it an authority and practical grounding that purely academic texts cannot replicate. Dr. Szasz's analytics and Dr. Jain's statistics volumes complete the package coherently. At 784 pages across three volumes, this is serious, well-organized professional development material.

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Selim Ozturk (Turkey)

I lead the business development function at a technology company in Ankara and our team needed to upgrade its analytical and decision-making capabilities quickly and cost-effectively. This three-book bundle was the right investment. The Decision Making Essentials volume by Mark Koscinski - a CPA and former CFO with a doctorate from Drew University - tackles cognitive biases and multi-attribute decision methods like Even Swaps with a practitioner's clarity that classroom texts rarely achieve. Dr. Szasz's data analytics content and Ms. Jain's statistics volume gave my team the quantitative tools to back decisions with data. Recommended for any growing business team.

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Chandrika Ramachandran (India)

I teach business research methods at a private university in Coimbatore and was looking for a self-contained reference set for my postgraduate students that covers statistical foundations, analytics applications, and decision-making frameworks in a cohesive way. This set meets that need. The Business Statistics volume by Ms. Riyanka Jain covers regression analysis and hypothesis testing with clear explanations suitable for students without strong math backgrounds. Dr. Bianca Szasz's data analytics volume connects those statistical foundations to real-world visualization and predictive techniques. Mark Koscinski's decision-making volume adds the capstone layer of game theory and scenario planning. An excellent trio.

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Arjun Balachandran (India)

I am pursuing a doctoral program in management at an institute in Ahmedabad, and this three-book set has been one of my most useful supplementary resources. The Decision Making Essentials volume by Mark Koscinski covers Prospect Theory, Bayes' Theorem, and game theory in a way that bridges academic theory with practical business application - a balance that many graduate-level texts fail to strike. Ms. Jain's business statistics volume is methodically organized and covers regression and hypothesis testing with appropriate rigor for management researchers. Dr. Szasz's analytics book ties everything together with applied visualization techniques. A well-curated, high-value set across all three volumes.

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Nathaniel Prescott (USA)

I am a finance director at a mid-sized manufacturing company in Columbus, Ohio, and I have been looking for a single resource that covers statistics, analytics, and decision-making frameworks without requiring a graduate degree to follow. This three-book set at 784 pages delivers all three. Mark Koscinski's Decision Making Essentials volume is outstanding - his treatment of cognitive biases, Prospect Theory, Bayes' Theorem, and the SMART method is clearly shaped by his 40-plus years of real executive experience across banking and defense contracting. Dr. Szasz's analytics volume and Ms. Jain's statistics volume round out the set exceptionally well. A rare, comprehensive package.

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Gregory Hastings (USA)
The Decision-Making Book Is What Sets This Set Apart

I've seen plenty of statistics and analytics book combos before, but including Decision Making Essentials as the third book is what makes this set genuinely distinctive. Mark Koscinski's treatment of cognitive biases, Prospect Theory, game theory, and Bayes' Theorem is written in a way that actually connects to how real business decisions get made - not just abstract theory. Business Statistics Essentials and Business Analytics Essentials provide the quantitative foundation, and then the decision-making book shows how humans actually use (and misuse) that data. The three books work together in a way that feels intentional and complete.

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Vandana Krishnan (India)
Bought This Set for My Business Analytics Course - Exceeded Expectations

I teach an introductory business analytics course at a community college and was looking for supplementary reading to complement my existing materials. This three-book set has become a recommended resource for every student in the class. Business Statistics Essentials is accessible without being oversimplified - the sections on regression and hypothesis testing are particularly well explained for non-math majors. Business Analytics Essentials is a natural extension, and Decision Making Essentials provides the capstone thinking that my students tend to find most engaging. The real-world case studies across all three books keep the content grounded.

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Harini Parthasarathy (India)
Used All Three Books for My Business School Preparation

I was preparing for a business school programme and wanted to build a strong quantitative and analytical foundation before starting. This set delivered exactly that - and in the right sequence. Business Statistics Essentials rebuilt my confidence around regression analysis and hypothesis testing, Business Analytics Essentials showed me how those tools translate into business decisions, and Decision Making Essentials gave me the frameworks - SMART, Even Swaps, scenario planning - that I expect to use in case discussions. The authors' backgrounds in both academia and industry are evident throughout.

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Tolga Çelik (Türkiye)
Strong Reference Set for Finance and Operations Managers

I work in financial planning and analysis and use statistical tools and analytics daily, but always informally - I never had formal training. Business Statistics Essentials structured what I already knew and filled in genuine gaps around performance measurement and risk management. The analytics book added the data visualization and predictive techniques I'd been missing, and the decision-making book gave me language and frameworks to explain how we make trade-off decisions to our leadership team. The only reason I'm giving this a 4 rather than a 5 is that I'd have liked more finance-specific examples in the statistics book.

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Howard Bellamy (USA)
The Cognitive Bias Section Changed How I Run Meetings

I've been in operations management for twelve years and thought I had good decision-making instincts. Decision Making Essentials made me question that in the best possible way. The cognitive biases and heuristics section was genuinely humbling - I recognized several patterns in how my team and I approach complex choices. Business Statistics Essentials was a solid refresher on the quantitative side, and Business Analytics Essentials connected both to practical business scenarios. Together the three books gave me a more structured and self-aware approach to decision-making at work. A well-chosen and well-packaged set.

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Alan Brown (USA)
Great for Business Professionals

The content is practical and well-organized. This set gives a detailed explanation of the statistical and predictive tools used in business analytics. Perfect for professionals looking to apply analytics in their everyday decision-making.