Quantitative methods for business : the A-Z of QM
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Quantitative methods for business : the A-Z of QM
Routledge, 2015, c2005
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Originally published: Oxford : Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
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