Coping With Numbers: A Management Guide,9780631141235

Coping With Numbers: A Management Guide

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ISBN13: 9780631141235
ISBN10: 0631141235
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-12-01
Publisher(s): John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Summary

This book provides vital basic training for students, managers and businessmen at all levels who need to understand and use numbers quickly and efficiently.

Author Biography

David Targett is Lecturer in Operational Research at the London Business School

Table of Contents

Prefacep. vii
Turning Numbers into Information
Data communicationp. 3
Data analysisp. 32
Summary measuresp. 56
Statistical Methods
Statistical distributionsp. 93
Statistical inferencep. 129
Relationships between Variables
Correlation and regressionp. 149
Business forecastingp. 188
Decision-making Techniques
Decision analysisp. 217
Linear programmingp. 250
Simulationp. 287
Appendices
Probabilityp. 323
Graphsp. 327
Linear functionsp. 333
Exponential functionsp. 336
Simultaneous equationsp. 344
Further Readingp. 349
Glossaryp. 352
Indexp. 361
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