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Managers use quantitative ideas in many different ways to help them with the decision making process. As a result, students of business and management need to have a sound grasp of basic quantitative principles.With a thorough understanding of the needs of business and management students, Essential Quantitative Methods: A Guide for Business covers only the core material necessary for an appreciation of how quantitative methods are used by managers. This text takes a concise, business focused approach to the subject emphasising ideas rather than arithmetic. With a strong focus on the real-world this student-friendly text illustrates how quantitative concepts and ideas can be put into practice. Key Features? Concise coverage of quantitative methods for business and managers.? Omits more difficult and less widely used topics, covering instead only the core material.? The emphasis is on ideas, covered through description, rather than arithmetic. ? Includes numerous real-world business focused examples and case studies.? Easy to read, student friendly writing style.? Extensive pedagogy including: worked examples, short case studies, featured text, summaries of sections, review questions, chapter reviews, etc.Readership:Aimed at students in their first year of a business studies course, this text will appeal to students at undergraduate level and HND level. It will also be ideal for MBA and other professional courses, and for any students taking a basic quantitative methods course who find the subject daunting.Donald Waters is a highly respected author known for his clarity and his student friendly texts. He is currently Professor of Operations Management at the University of Calgary in Canada. He has wide experience of teaching in the UK, Europe and North America and has written several successful textbooks, including Quantitative Methods for Business 2e (AWL 1997).

Table of Contents:
I - BACKGROUND IDEAS.   1. Numbers and Managers.   2. Tools for Quantitative Methods.   II - COLLECTING AND DESCRIBING DATA.   3. Collecting Data.  4. Using Diagrams to Present Data.  5. Using Numbers to Describe Data. III - SOLVING BUSINESS PROBLEMS.   6. Calculations with Money.  7. Relating Variables by Regression.   8. Business Forecasting.   9. Some Other Types of  Problems.   IV - BUSINESS STATISTICS.   10. Uncertainty and Probabilities.  11. Probability Distributions.  12. Sampling and Testing.  13. Some Other Uses of Probabilities.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780201331370
  • Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
  • Publisher Imprint: Addison Wesley
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 344
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 520 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0201331373
  • Publisher Date: 08 Apr 1998
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Guide for Business
  • Width: 174 mm


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