Essential Quantitative Methods

Table des matières

I - BACKGROUND IDEAS.  
1. Numbers and Managers.  
2. Tools for Quantitative Methods.  
II - COLLECTING AND DESCRIBING DATA.  
3. Collecting Data. 
4. Using Diagrams to Present Data. 
5. Using Numbers to Describe Data.
III - SOLVING BUSINESS PROBLEMS.  
6. Calculations with Money. 
7. Relating Variables by Regression.  
8. Business Forecasting.  
9. Some Other Types of  Problems.  
IV - BUSINESS STATISTICS.  
10. Uncertainty and Probabilities. 
11. Probability Distributions. 
12. Sampling and Testing. 
13. Some Other Uses of Probabilities.

Résumé

This text gives students an appreciation of the way that quantitative ideas are used by managers. It takes students as gently as possible through the basic material, emphasizing the ideas rather than the arithmetic. With a strong focus on the real-world this student-friendly text illustrates how quantitative concepts and ideas can be put into practice.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Donald Waters
• Edition: Pearson Academic
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.01.1998
• EAN: 9780201331370
• ISBN: 978-0-201-33137-0
• Pages: 334
• Poids: 970 g
• Thèmes: Addison-Wesley; Addison-Wesley
• Catégories: Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Informatique, ordinateurs; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Economie > Général, dictionnaires