TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buglear,John
TI  - Quantitative methods for business and management students
SN  - 9780273736288 (pbk.) :
AV  - HF1017 
U1  - 650.015195 BUG 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Harlow
PB  - Financial Times Prentice Hall
KW  - Management
KW  - Statistical methods
KW  - Commercial statistics
KW  - Business and Management
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Business mathematics & systems
KW  - thema
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -