TY - BOOK AU - Waters, Donald TI - Quantitative methods for business SN - 9780273694588 AV - HD30.25.W29 PY - 2008/// CY - Harlow PB - Prentice N1 - 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 ER -