Quantitative Approaches in Business Studies
Autor Clare Morrisen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 noi 2011
With a uniquely user-friendly style, Clare Morris' popular treatment of this challenging subject is carefully designed to build students' confidence in the use and interpretation of quantitative methods. Encouraging conceptual understanding as well as practical aptitude, the text leads the reader from an initial chapter revising basic mathematics through to a concluding chapter discussing statistical research methods for student projects. Practical guidance on the use of Excel for quantitative analysis runs throughout the text, integrated with an online Excel workbook.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780273738633
ISBN-10: 0273738631
Pagini: 544
Dimensiuni: 195 x 259 x 21 mm
Greutate: 1.01 kg
Ediția:8 ed
Editura: Pearson Education
ISBN-10: 0273738631
Pagini: 544
Dimensiuni: 195 x 259 x 21 mm
Greutate: 1.01 kg
Ediția:8 ed
Editura: Pearson Education
Cuprins
Introduction: Why quantitative methods?
Part 1 NUMBERS how we handle them
- Tools of the trade: basic numeracy skills
Part 2 NUMBERS a means of communication
- Obtaining the figures: data and data collection
- Presenting the figures: tables and diagrams
- Summarising the figures: measures of location and spread
- Measuring changes: index numbers
- A firm foundation: elementary probability
- Patterns of probability: some distributions
- Estimating from samples: inference
- Checking a theory: hypothesis testing
- Making it better: statistics and quality improvement
- Looking for connections: correlation
- Spotting the relationship: line fitting
- Multiple regression
- Planning an inventory policy: stock control and simulation
- Forecasting: time-series, semi-log graphs and exponential smoothing
- Allowing for interest: financial mathematics
- Planning production levels: linear programming
- Planning a project: network analysis
- Quantitative methods in the student research project
Part 3 NUMBERS a basis for deduction
Part 4 NUMBERS a tool of planning
Notă biografică
Clare Morris has taught quantitative methods to students of business from HND to PhD level, at institutions including Bristol Polytechnic, Warwick Business School and Cardiff Business School. She is currently an Emeritus Professor at the University of Gloucestershire.