Les Oakshott

Quantitative Methods (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Offering a student-friendly introduction to quantitative methods, this text covers all of the need to know basics in a clear and engaging manner. Quantitative Methods is an ideal text for students of all levels coming to the subject for first time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137340863
• Artikelnr.: 62860817

Autorenporträt

Les Oakshott is 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. He is also the author of Essential Quantitative Methods for Business, Management and Finance (5th edition published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

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 AND 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. Choosing Wisely: Investment Appraisal.- 12. Forecasting: Time Series Analysis.- 13. Making the Most of Things: Linear Programming.- 14. Planning Large Projects: Critical Path Analysis.- Appendices.- Index.