Statistics for Business and Economics (8th Global Edition) – eBook

About The Author

Betty Thorne

Dr. Betty M. Thorne, author, researcher, and award-winning teacher, is a professor of statistics in the School of Business Administration at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida. In addition to receiving the Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award and Professor of the Year Award in the Stetson School of Business Administration, Dr. Thorne has won the McEniry Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest award bestowed upon a Stetson University faculty member. Dr. Thorne is a professor at Stetson University, where she teaches in the undergraduate business program in DeLand, Florida, as well as the summer program in Innsbruck, Austria, the college of law at Stetson University, the executive MBA program at Stetson University, and the executive passport program at Stetson University.

Dr. Thorne has won numerous teaching honors throughout the JD/MBA program at Stetson's College of Law in Gulfport, Florida. She earned her BS from Geneva College and her MA and Ph.D. from Indiana University.

Paul Newbold

Dr. Paul Newbold (late) was renowned for his time series analysis and econometrics work. His most notable contribution was an article he co-wrote with Clive Granger in 1974 that popularized the idea of spurious regressions.

Newbold received his B.Sc. at the London School of Economics and his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the guidance of George E. P. Box. Later, he taught at the University of Nottingham and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While on sabbatical, he additionally instructed time series analysis classes at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He co-authored "Statistics for Business and Economics" with W L Carlson and B Thorne, a widely used and comprehensive statistics textbook, not in its Tenth Edition.

William Carlson

Dr. William Carlson is a retired professor of economics at St. Olaf College, where he taught economics for 31 years and held several administrative positions, including director of academic computing, In addition to giving lectures at a variety of universities, he has held leave positions with the US government and the University of Minnesota. He was chosen as a Phi Beta Kappa honorary member. Before starting his employment at St. Olaf, he also worked for 10 years in contract research and the private sector. Bill Carlson has a BS in engineering from Michigan Technological University, an MS in engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in quantitative management from the University of Michigan's Rackham Graduate School.