Quantitative Methods for Business and Management

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-273-73628-8
Verlag: Pearson

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 195 mm x 265 mm, Gewicht: 1022 g

Quantitative Methods for Business and Management Students takes you on a journey though the techniques required to succeed in business and management. With a user-friend accessible writing style, John Buglear presents these techniques simply and provides numerous examples to enable you to relate the theory to real-life applications.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buglear, John

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. 1 Rules of the road; The basic techniques
2. 2 Straight ahead - linear models
3. 3 Around the bend - dealing with the curves
4. 4 Filling up - fuelling quantitative analysis
5. 5 Good visibility - pictorial presentation of data
6. 6 General directions - summarising data
7. 7 Two-way traffic - investigating relationships between two variables using correlation and regression
8. Counting the cost - summarising money variables over time
9. 9 Long distance - analysing time series data
10. 10 Is it worth the risk - introducing probability
11. 11 Finding the right way - analysing decisions
12. 12 Accidents and incidence - discrete probability distributions and simulation
13. 13 Smooth running - continuous probability distributions and basic queuing theory
14. 14 Getting from A to B - project planning using networks
15. 15 Taking short cuts - sampling methods
16. 16 Test driving - sampling theory, estimation and hypothsis testing
17. 17 High performance - statistical inference for comparing population means and bivariate data
18. 18 Going off-road - managing quantitative research for projects and dissertations#

Über Autor(innen)

Dr John Buglear is a Principal Lecturer in Statistics and Operational Research at Nottingham Business School where he is also Programme Leader of the BA Business courses. As well as writing this textbook he has published research in the field of student engagement.