Title:
Quantitative methods for business : the A-Z of QM
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Publication Information:
Oxford : Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005
ISBN:
9780750658980
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Summary
Summary
Quantitative Methods for Business: The A-Z of QM will enable readers to: *Appreciate the significance of quantitative methods for businesses and the study of business *Understand and apply a wide range of quantitative techniques *Select appropriate quantitative techniques for data analysis, problem solving and decision making *Interpret and communicate the results of quantitative analysis
Table of Contents
| Setting off |
| Getting linear models straight |
| Dealing with curves without going round the bend |
| Filling up - fuelling quantitative analysis |
| Good visibility - pictorial presentation of data |
| General directions - summarising data |
| Two-way traffic - summarising and representing relationships between two variables |
| Counting the cost - summarising money variables over time |
| Long distance - analysing time series |
| Is it worth the risk? - introducing probability |
| Finding the right way - analysing decisions |
| Accidents and incidence - discrete probability distributions |
| Smooth running - continuous probability distributions and basic queuing theory |
| Getting from A to B - project planning using networks |
| Taking short cuts - sampling methods |
| Test driving - sampling theory, estimation and hypothesis testing |
| High performance - statistical inference for comparing population means and bivariate data |
| Going off road - managing quantitative research for projects and dissertations |
| Appendix 1 Statistical and accounting tables |
| Appendix 2 Answers and selected worked solutions to review questions |
| References |
