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Title:
Quantitative methods for business decisions
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Edition:
7th ed.
Publication Information:
Australia : Cengage Learning, 2013.
Physical Description:
xv, 604 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9781408064986

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33000000000122 HF5691 C87 2013 Open Access Book Book
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This established and popular text is regarded as one of the clearest and most comprehensive in its field. David Eadson has joined Jon Curwin and Roger Slater in the author team, and together they have sought to offer a more compact book with all the qualities of the previous six editions, whilst strengthening the links to online support materials. The new edition has been enhanced to reflect the latest learning plans and techniques, providing students with all the tools they need to pass a typical quantitative methods course. Each chapter focuses on a selection of statistical techniques, illustrated with examples from across business, marketing, economics, finance, and public administration, to appeal to students across the business spectrum. Whilst all core material is covered in the book itself, the online offering has been bolstered to include Parts 6-8 covering 'Modelling', 'Mathematical Topics' and 'Student Guides' respectively, in addition to a wide range of other resources including data sets, annotated answers and extra learning tools. Visual signposts throughout the text guide the student to the online platform to provide a seamless interaction between the two thus providing a multi-faceted learning experience. The wide-ranging coverage provided makes this the ideal text for the teaching of quantitative methods across all business disciplines at undergraduate, MBA, and post-experience levels. This textbook is autopackaged with CourseMate. CourseMate brings course concepts to life with interactive learning, study, and exam preparation tools that support the printed textbook and the textbook-specific website. CourseMate includes an integrated eBook and interactive teaching and learning tools including critical thinking questions, online cases, quizzes, flashcards and more and an EngagementTracker, a first-of-its-kind tool that monitors student engagement in the course.


Table of Contents

1 Basic Mathematics
1A Mathematical Background
1B Financial Mathematics
Part 1 Understanding Quantitative Information
2 The quantitative approach
3 Managing data
4 Survey methods
Part 2 Describing Data
5 Presentation of data
6 Measures of location
7 Measures of dispersion
8 Index numbers
Part 3 Measuring Uncertainty
9 Probability
10 Discrete probability distributions
11 The Normal distribution
Part 4 Using Statistical Inference
12 Samples, Estimation and Confidence intervals
13 Significance testing
14 Non-parametric tests
Part 5 Relating Variables And Predicting Outcomes
15 Correlation and simple regression analysis
16 Multiple Regression Analysis
17 Time series
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