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Cause and Effect Business Analytics and Data Science: For Big and Small Data

Cause and Effect Business Analytics and Data Science: For Big and Small Data

Cause and Effect Business Analytics and Data Science: For Big and Small Data
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Cause and Effect Business Analytics and Data Science: For Big and Small Data Hardback - 2020

by Haughton, Dominique/ Haughton, Jonathan/ Lo, Victor S. Y

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Chapman & Hall, 2020. Hardcover. New. 300 pages. 9.25x6.14x9.45 inches.
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  • Title Cause and Effect Business Analytics and Data Science: For Big and Small Data
  • Author Haughton, Dominique/ Haughton, Jonathan/ Lo, Victor S. Y
  • Binding Hardback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 350
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Chapman & Hall
  • Publication date 2020
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # x-1482216477
  • ISBN 9781482216479 / 1482216477
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.81 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 2.06 cm)
  • Category Business / Economics / Finance
  • Quantity available 2

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From the publisher

Among the most important questions that businesses ask are some very simple ones: If I decide to do something, will it work? And if so, how large are the effects? To answer these predictive questions, and later base decisions on them, we need to establish causal relationships.

Establishing and measuring causality can be difficult. This book explains the most useful techniques for discerning causality and illustrates the principles with numerous examples from business. It discusses randomized experiments (aka A/B testing) and techniques such as propensity score matching, synthetic controls, double differences, and instrumental variables. There is a chapter on the powerful AI approach of Directed Acyclic Graphs (aka Bayesian Networks), another on structural equation models, and one on time-series techniques, including Granger causality.

At the heart of the book are four chapters on uplift modeling, where the goal is to help firms determine how best to deploy their resources for marketing or other interventions. We start by modeling uplift, discuss the test-and-learn process, and provide an overview of the prescriptive analytics of uplift.

The book is written in an accessible style and will be of interest to data analysts and strategists in business, to students and instructors of business and analytics who have a solid foundation in statistics, and to data scientists who recognize the need to take seriously the need for causality as an essential input into effective decision-making.

About the author

Dominique Haughton (PhD MIT 1983) is Professor Emerita of Mathematical Sciences and Global Studies at Bentley University near Boston, and Affiliated Researcher at Universit Paris 1 (Pantheon-Sorbonne, SAMM) and at Universit Toulouse 1 (TSE-R). Her widely published work concentrates on how to best leverage modern analytics techniques to address questions of business or societal interest. She is an alumna of the Ecole Normale Suprieure and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

Jonathan Haughton earned his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1983. He has published widely in the areas of economic development, taxation, the environment, and the analysis and measurement of poverty. Until recently, he chaired the economics department at Suffolk University, Boston, and he has taught or worked as a consultant in over 20 countries on five continents.

Victor S.Y. Lo is an executive with over three decades of consulting and corporate experience employing data-driven solutions in a wide variety of business areas, including Marketing, Risk Management, Financial Econometrics, Insurance, Product Development, Transportation, Healthcare, Operations Management, and Human Resources, and is a pioneer of uplift modeling. He is currently SVP, Data Science and AI at Fidelity Investments, and has led data science and analytics teams in various organizations. Victor earned a master's degree in Operational Research and a PhD in Statistics, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Management Science.

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