Quantitative methods for business and management students / by John Buglear.
Material type: TextPublication details: Harlow : Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2011.Description: 488 p. ; 27 cmISBN:- 9780273736288 (pbk.) :
- 9780750658980
- 650.015195 BUG
- HF1017
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.Setting off -- 2.Getting linear models straight -- 3.Dealing with curves without going round the bend -- 4.FIlling up - fuelling quantitative analysis -- 5.Good visibility - pictorial presentation of data -- 6.General directions - summarizing data -- 7.Two-way traffic - summarizing and representing relationshps between two variables -- 8.Counting the cost - summarizing money variables over time -- 9.Long distance - analysing time series data -- 10.Is it worth the risk - introducing probability -- 11.Finding the right way - analysing decisions -- 12.Accidents and incidence - discrete probability distributions and simulation -- 13.Smooth running - continuous probability distributions and basic queuing theory -- 14.Getting from A to B - project planning? -- 15.Taking short cuts - sampling methods -- 16.Test driving - sampling theory, estimation and hypothesis testing -- 17.High performance - statistical inference for comparing population means and bivariate data -- 18.Going off-road - managing quantitative research for projects and dissertations.
With a user-friendly accessible writing style, John Buglear presents these techniques simply and provides numerous examples to enable you to relate the theory to real-life applications.