Quantitative Methods for Business Decisions by Jon Curwin
Provides students with all the tools they need to pass the typical Quantitative Methods course. In this title, each chapter focuses on a selection of statistical techniques, illustrated with examples from across business, marketing, economics, finance, and public administration, to appeal to students across the business spectrum.
1 BASIC MATHEMATICS1A. Mathematical Background. 1B. Financial Mathematics. Part 1: UNDERSTANDING QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION. 2. The quantitative approach. 3. Managing data. 4. Survey methods. Part 2: DESCRIBING DATE. 5. Presentation of data. 6. Measures of location. 7. Measures of dispersion. 8. Index numbers. Part 3: MEASURING UNCERTAINTY. 9. Probability. 10. Discrete probability distributions. 11. The Normal distribution. Part 4: USING STATISTICAL INFERENCE. 12. Samples, Estimation and Confidence intervals. 13. Significance testing. 14. Non-parametric tests. Part 5: RELATING VARIABLES AND PREDICTING OUTCOMES. 15. Correlation and simple regression analysis. 16. Multiple Regression Analysis. 17. Time series.
Jon Curwin is a Principal Lecturer at the University of Central England Business School and has taught quantitative methods on a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Roger Slater is Head of the Faculty Resources Centre for the Faculty of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Central England, UK, and has been involved in teaching and examining quatitative topics for over 30 years. David Eadson is a Higher Education Consultant, formerly a Principal Lecturer in Statistics in the Teesside University Business School
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| ISBN 13 | 9781408060193 |
| ISBN 10 | 1408060191 |
| Title | Quantitative Methods for Business Decisions |
| Author | Jon Curwin |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cengage Learning EMEA |
| Year published | 2013-01-20 |
| Number of pages | 606 |
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