Quantitative methods for business, management and finance
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Quantitative methods for business, management and finance
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
3rd ed
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Previous ed.: 2005
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Quantitative Methods is a comprehensive guide to the techniques any student of business or finance is likely to need. The authors' coaching, learning-by-doing approach coupled with the text's clear structural outline makes these essential mathematical skills far less daunting. A bestselling and popular text in its previous editions, it has been fully updated with: * new 4 colour text design * New and improved Companion Website * More empirical examples, from across the business, management and finance spectrum * VLE-compatible web content for Blackboard and WebCT * Updated commands and exercises in light of new version Excel and SPSS * New content on: data mining, OLAP, text mining, non-parametric methods, index numbers, productivity software tools.
Table of Contents
PART I: ESSENTIAL MATHS Numbers and Symbols Simplifying Expressions Solving Problems Modelling Using Straight Lines PART II: MORE MATHS Some Special Equations Modelling Using Curves Rates of Change PART III: DESCRIBING DATA Pictures of Data Summarising Data PART IV: PROBABILITY Measuring Uncertainty Numerical Outcomes Continuous Numerical Outcomes Some More Probability Distributions PART V: STATISTICS Estimation Testing Hypotheses Correlation & Regression Comparing Two Populations Nonparametric methods Categorical Data Forecasting Statistics in Practice PART VI: BUSINESS MODELLING Linear Programming Models Planning Projects Models for Inventory Control Time and Money Decision Making Simulating Reality Controlling Quality STATISTICAL TABLES Cumulative Binomial Probabilities Cumulative Standard Normal Probabilities Percentage Points of the Standard Normal Distribution Random Digits Percentage Points of the t Distribution Percentage Points of the x2 Distribution
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