Applied management science and spreadsheet modeling
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Applied management science and spreadsheet modeling
Duxbury Press, c1996
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Includes index
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Description
Focusing on models of management science, while downplaying the traditional requirement of mathematics and the coverage of algorithms, this text emphasizes spreadsheets - primarily Excel 5.0 - throughout.
Table of Contents
- Mathematical models as management tools
- overview of mathematical programming and optimization
- product mixes
- selecting, mixing and blending
- staffing, assigning, contracting and scheduling
- distribution and activity networks
- mathematical programming with multiple objectives
- materials management
- decision and risk analysis
- utility theory and ranking
- Markov analysis and sequential models
- waiting lines
- Monte Carlo simulation
- project management
- forecasting
- admonitions, suggestions and thoughts about the future. Appendices: areas (probabilities) for the standard normal distribution
- cumulative areas (probabilities) for the standard normal distribution
- cumulative binomial distribution probabilities
- cumulative poisson probabilities
- student's t distribution
- probability of zero customers in multi-channel service facility
- probability all channels of a multi-channel service facility are busy
- uniform distribution of random numbers
- normal distribution of random numbers.
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