Quantitative Methods for Business, Management and Finance

LOUISE SWIFT is a Medical Statistician in the Department of Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, UK. SALLY PIFF is a Tutor in the School of Management, University of East Anglia, UK.

Preface - PART ONE: ESSENTIAL MATHS - Numbers and Symbols - Simplifying Expressions - Solving Problems - Modelling Using Straight Lines - PART TWO: MORE MATHS - Some Special Equations - Modelling Using Curves - Rates of Change - PART THREE: DESCRIBING DATA - Pictures of Data - Summarising Data - PART FOUR: PROBABILITY - Measuring Uncertainty - Numerical Outcomes - Continuous Numerical Outcomes - PART FIVE: STATISTICS - Estimation - Testing Hypotheses - Correlation and Regression - Forecasting - Comparing Two Populations - Categorical Data - PART SIX: BUSINESS MODELLING - Linear Programming Models - Planning Projects - Models for Inventory Control - Time and Money - Decision Making - Controlling Quality - Simulating Reality - Index