Essential Quantitative Methods: For Business, Management and Finance

ISBN-13: 9781352005691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 428 str.

UK) Oakshott Les (University of Warwick

Spis treści

-PART I: MATHEMATICAL APPLICATIONS 1. Revision Mathematics 2. Keeping up with Change: Index Numbers PART II: COLLECTING AND INTERPRETING DATA. 3. Collecting Data: Surveys and Samples. 4. Finding Patterns in Data: Charts and Tables 5. Making Sense of Data: Averages and Measures of Spread PART III: PROBABILITY& STATISTICS. 6. Taking a Chance: Probability 7. The Shape of Data: Probability Distributions 8. Interpreting with Confidence: Analysis of Sample Data 9. Checking Ideas: Testing a Hypothesis. 10. Cause and Effect: Correlation and Regression PART IV: DECISION MAKING TECHNIQUES 11. How to make Good Decisions 12. Choosing wisely: Investment Appraisal 13. Forecasting: Time Series Analysis 14. Making the Most of Things: Linear Programming 15. Planning Large Projects: Network Analysis.

O autorze

Les Oakshott is a former Associate Fellow of Warwick Business School, UK. He has worked in industry and education and has wide experience of applying teaching quantitative methods in a business context.