Quantitative Methods for Business & Management
By John Buglear
Pearson Education
Distributed by Trans-Atlantic Publications Inc.
April 2012
ISBN: 9780273736288
466 Pages
, Illustrated
$79.50 Paper Original
Quantitative Methods for Business and Management Studentstakes you on a journey though the techniques required to succeed in business and management. With a user-friend accessible writing style, John Buglear presents these techniques simply and provides numerous examples to enable you to relate the theory to real-life applications.
Contents:
List of self-assembly guides
Guided tour
Introduction: the Quantitative Methods road map
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Rules of the road: The basic techniques
Chapter 2 Straight ahead - linear models
Chapter 3 Around the bend - dealing with the curves
Chapter 4 Filling up - fuelling quantitative analysis
Chapter 5 Good visibility - pictorial presentation of data
Chapter 6 General directions - summarising data
Chapter 7 Two-way traffic - investigating relationships between two variables using correlation and regression
Chapter 8 Counting the cost - summarising money variables over time
Chapter 9 Long distance - analysing time series data
Chapter 10 Is it worth the risk - introducing probability
Chapter 11 Finding the right way - analysing decisions
Chapter 12 Accidents and incidence - discrete probability distributions and simulation
Chapter 13 Smooth running - continuous probability distributions and basic queuing theory
Chapter 14 Getting from A to B - project planning using networks
Chapter 15 Taking short cuts - sampling methods
Chapter 16 Test driving - sampling theory, estimation and hypothsis testing
Chapter 17 High performance - statistical inference for comparing population means and bivariate data
Chapter 18 Going off-road - managing quantitative research for projects and dissertations#
Appendix 1 Statistical and Accounting tables
Appendix 2 Answers to review questions
Index