Quantitative methods for business /
- 4th ed
- Harlow: Prentice; 2008.
- xx, 623 p.: ill.; 21cm.
Includes index.
Contents: Managers and numbers -- Quantitative tools -- Drawing graphs -- Collecting data -- Diagrams for presenting data -- Using numbers to describe data -- Describing changes with index numbers -- Finance and performance -- Regression and curve fitting -- Forecasting -- Simultaneous equations and matrices -- Planning with linear programming -- Rates change and calculus -- Uncertainty and probabilities -- Probability distributions -- Using samples -- Testing hypotheses -- Making decisions -- Quality management -- Inventory management -- Project networks -- Queues and simulation.