Quantitative Methods for Business, Management and Finance

Louise Swift, Sally Piff (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

906 Seiten

2005 | 2nd Revised edition
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-4039-3528-1 (ISBN)

Infos

A comprehensive, student-focused textbook designed primarily for undergraduate business students taking an introductory course on quantitative methods. Starting with no assumptions about students' knowledge the authors use numerous examples, checkpoints and assessments to encourage 'learning by doing' and provides support for students of all abilities. This edition provides additional contextual information, includes a new chapter on decision-making, incorporates the use of SPSS in addition to Excel, and offers an expanded set of companion web resources for students and lecturers.

Autor

LOUISE SWIFT is a Medical Statistician in the Department of Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, UK. SALLY PIFF is a Tutor in the School of Management, University of East Anglia, UK.

Inhalt

Preface - PART ONE: ESSENTIAL MATHS - Numbers and Symbols - Simplifying Expressions - Solving Problems - Modelling Using Straight Lines - PART TWO: MORE MATHS - Some Special Equations - Modelling Using Curves - Rates of Change - PART THREE: DESCRIBING DATA - Pictures of Data - Summarising Data - PART FOUR: PROBABILITY - Measuring Uncertainty - Numerical Outcomes - Continuous Numerical Outcomes - PART FIVE: STATISTICS - Estimation - Testing Hypotheses - Correlation and Regression - Forecasting - Comparing Two Populations - Categorical Data - PART SIX: BUSINESS MODELLING - Linear Programming Models - Planning Projects - Models for Inventory Control - Time and Money - Decision Making - Controlling Quality - Simulating Reality - Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2005
• Zusatzinfo: Illustrations
• Verlagsort: Gordonsville
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 189 x 246 mm
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• ISBN-10: 1-4039-3528-9 / 1403935289
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4039-3528-1 / 9781403935281
• Zustand: Neuware