Quantitative Analysis for Management

Hardcover, 752 pages + bonus CD-ROM
Size: 10.3" x 8.3"
ISBN 0131857029
9780131857025
Prentice Hall
June 2005
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Easy to understand - even for managers with limited math backgrounds, this book uses a modeling approach to provide thorough coverage of the basic techniques in quantitative methods and focuses on the managerial applications of these techniques.

An interesting and reader friendly writing style makes for a clear presentation, complete with all the necessary assumptions and mathematical details. Chapter topics include:

probability concepts and applications,
decision models and decision trees,
regression models,
forecasting,
inventory control models,
linear programming modeling applications
computer analyses,
network models,
project management,
simulation modeling,
and much more.

The included CD-ROM contains spreadsheets and models that can be adapted to the readers' needs. For an introduction to quantitative analysis, quantitative management, operations research, or management science-especially for those individuals preparing for work in agricultural economics and health care fields.

For readers already familiar with Excel, instructions and screen captures are provided to highlight functions and tools that are directly related to quantitative analysis. New appendices provide succinct instructions and examples in several chapters. Excel is used for computations with the normal distribution, the binomial distribution, Bayes’ theorem, simple and multiple regression, the analytic hierarchy process, Markov analysis, matrix operations, and other models. From the previous edition, Excel is also used for linear and nonlinear programming, simulation, and forecasting.

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