Quantitative methods for business decisions
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Quantitative methods for business decisions
International Thomason Business Press, 1996
4th ed
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Computer disk contains Microstats by Mike Hart
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This text explains the statistical and mathematical methods most commonly taught in quantitative courses in business studies, marketing, finance, accounting, economics and public administration. Microstats, a public domain software package, is provided on the accompanying disk.
Table of Contents
- A refresher in basic mathematics. Part 1 Quantitative information: data collection
- presentation of data. Part 2 Descriptive statistics: measures of location
- measures of dispersion
- index numbers. Part 3 Measuring uncertainty: probability
- discrete probability
- the normal distribution. Part 4 Statistical inference: confidence intervals: significance testing
- non-parametric tests. Part 5 Relating variables and predicting outcomes: time series
- correlation
- regresion
- multiple regression. Part 6 Modelling
- the time value of money
- linear programming
- networks
- modelling stock control and queues
- simulation. Part 7 Mathematical background: mathematical relationships
- matrices
- use of calculus
- typical examination questions.
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