Quantitative Methods for Business 4e

Preface Part One - Background Chapter 1: Managers and numbers Chapter 2: Quantitative tools Chapter 3: Drawing graphs Part Two - Collecting and summarising data Chapter 4: Collecting data Chapter 5: Diagrams for presenting data Chapter 6: Using numbers to describe data Chapter 7: Desccribing changes with index numbers Part Three - Solving management problems Chapter 8: Finance and performance Chapter 9: Regression and curve fitting Chapter 10: Forecasting Chapter 11: Simultaneous equations and matrices Chapter 12: Planning with linear programming Chapter 13: Rates of change and calculus Part Four - Introducing statistics Chapter 14: Uncertainty and probabilities Chapter 15: Probability distributions Chapter 16: Using samples Chapter 17: Testing hypotheses Part Five - Management problems with uncertainty Chapter 18: Making decisions Chapter 19: Quality management Chapter 20: Inventory management Chapter 21: Porject networks Chapter 22: Queues and simulation Glossary Appendix A: Solutions to review questions Appendix B: Probabilities for the binomial distribution Appendix C: Probabilities for the Poisson distribution Appendix D: Probabilities for the Normal distribution Appendix E: Probabilities for the t-distribution Appendix F: Critical values for the X2 distribution Index