Quantitative Methods - Louise Swift, Sally Piff

Quantitative Methods

for Business, Management and Finance
Buch | Softcover
856 Seiten
2010 | 3rd Revised edition
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-21824-6 (ISBN)
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Quantitative Methods is a comprehensive guide to the techniques any student of business or finance is likely to need. The authors' coaching, learning-by-doing approach, coupled with the text's clear structural outline makes essential mathematical skills far less daunting.
Quantitative Methods is a comprehensive guide to the techniques any student of business or finance is likely to need. The authors' coaching, learning-by-doing approach coupled with the text's clear structural outline makes these essential mathematical skills far less daunting. A bestselling and popular text in its previous editions, it has been fully updated with: * new 4 colour text design * New and improved Companion Website * More empirical examples, from across the business, management and finance spectrum * VLE-compatible web content for Blackboard and WebCT * Updated commands and exercises in light of new version Excel and SPSS * New content on: data mining, OLAP, text mining, non-parametric methods, index numbers, productivity software tools.

LOUISE SWIFT taught Quantitative Methods to students of business, management and finance for over ten years at the University of East Anglia, UK, where she now works as a statistician. SALLY PIFF is the Quantitative Methods tutor in the School of Management, University of East Anglia, UK.

PART I: ESSENTIAL MATHS Numbers and Symbols Simplifying Expressions Solving Problems Modelling Using Straight Lines PART II: MORE MATHS Some Special Equations Modelling Using Curves Rates of Change PART III: DESCRIBING DATA Pictures of Data Summarising Data PART IV: PROBABILITY Measuring Uncertainty Numerical Outcomes Continuous Numerical Outcomes Some More Probability Distributions PART V: STATISTICS Estimation Testing Hypotheses Correlation & Regression Comparing Two Populations Nonparametric methods Categorical Data Forecasting Statistics in Practice PART VI: BUSINESS MODELLING Linear Programming Models Planning Projects Models for Inventory Control Time and Money Decision Making Simulating Reality Controlling Quality STATISTICAL TABLES Cumulative Binomial Probabilities Cumulative Standard Normal Probabilities Percentage Points of the Standard Normal Distribution Random Digits Percentage Points of the t Distribution Percentage Points of the x2 Distribution

Erscheint lt. Verlag 22.1.2010
Zusatzinfo 50 graphs, 100 colour tables, 50 diagrames
Verlagsort Basingstoke
Sprache englisch
Maße 190 x 246 mm
Gewicht 1622 g
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management
ISBN-10 0-230-21824-5 / 0230218245
ISBN-13 978-0-230-21824-6 / 9780230218246
Zustand Neuware
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