Quantitative methods for business / Donald Waters.

Contents;

Part one: Background
1. Managers and numbers
2. Calculations and equations
3. Drawing graphs

Part two: Collecting and summarizing data
4. Collecting data
5. Diagrams for presenting data
6. Using numbers to describe data
7. Describing changes with index numbers

Part three: Solving management problems
8. Finance and performance
9. Regression and curve fitting
10. Forecasting
11. Linear programming

Part four: Introducing statistics
12. Uncertainty and probabilities
13. Probability distributions
14. Using samples
15. testing hypotheses

Part five: Management problems involving uncertainty
16. Making decisions
17. Quality management
18. Inventory management
19. Project management
20. Queues and simulation

Includes bibliographical references and index.