Quantitative Decision Making/ John Powell and John Harris
Series: Understanding BusinessPublication details: Harlow: Longman Group Limited, c1982.Description: viii, 223p.: ill.; 24cmISBN:- 0582355451
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Table of contents
1. In the beginning 1
Part I The raw materials for decisions
2. Using published data sources 5
3. Primary data collection 13
4. The presentation of data 26
5. Frequency distributions and central tendency 44
6. Measures of spread 57
Part II Uncertainty in decisions
7. Probability and decision trees 69
8. Taking samples (1): The Binomial distribution 85
9. Taking samples (2): The normal distribution 95
10 Using the normal distribution 107
Part III Time in decisions
11. the use of index numbers 119
12. Forecasting methods 132
Part IV optimizing decisions
13. Operational research and model building 148
14. network analysis 154
15. Blending 170
16. the transportation technique 179
17 Simulation 197
18. At the end 211
Appendix a table of binomial coefficients 213
Appendix B table of standard normal curve areas 214
Glossary 216
index 222
includes bibliographic references and index
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