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Quantitative methods for business, management and finance / Louise Swift and Sally Piff.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xvii, 882 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781403935281 (pbk.) :
  • 9781403935281 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.0015195 SWI
LOC classification:
  • HD30.215 .S95 2005
Contents:
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
Summary: This text is a complete course for undergraduate business studies students. It is a comprehensive text and provides all that any students new to quantitative methods needs, whatever their abilities.
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Previous ed.: Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [xv]-xvii) and index.

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

This text is a complete course for undergraduate business studies students. It is a comprehensive text and provides all that any students new to quantitative methods needs, whatever their abilities.

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