Quantitative Methods for Business and Management : an Entrepreneurial Perspective.: an Entrepreneurial Perspective. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Wall, Stuart
• Contents: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Part One Introduction stage of product life cycle -- Chapter 1 Collecting and presenting data -- Introduction -- Collection of data -- Presenting data using frequency tables -- Presenting data using bar charts and pie charts -- Presenting data using histograms -- Presenting data using frequency polygons and frequency curves -- Presenting data using the Lorenz curve -- Review questions -- Chapter 2 Making sense of data: Central location and dispersion -- Introduction -- Notation -- Measures of central location -- Normal and skewed distribution Measures of dispersion -- Coefficient of variation (C of V) -- Review questions -- Chapter 3 Financial decision making: Project appraisal -- Introduction -- Investment and financial decision making -- Interest rates and project appraisal -- Compound factors, discounting and present value -- Cash flow and financial decision making -- Investment appraisal: non-discounting techniques -- Investment appraisal: discounting techniques -- Review questions -- Part Two Growth stage of product life cycle? -- Chapter 4 Regression, correlation and time series -- Introduction -- Regression analysis Correlation -- Spearman's coefficient of rank correlation -- Time series and forecasting -- Review questions -- Chapter 5 Probability and probability distributions -- Introduction -- Probability calculations -- Venn diagrams: events not mutually exclusive -- Independent events: AND rule -- Dependent events: conditional probability -- Game theory and expected value -- The normal distribution -- The binomial distribution -- The Poisson distribution -- Review questions -- Chapter 6 Sampling and tests of hypotheses -- Introduction -- Types of sample -- Distribution of sample means Confidence intervals -- Tests of hypotheses: principles and practice -- Student t-distribution -- Chi-squared test -- Review questions -- Part Three Maturity stage of product life cycle? -- Chapter 7 Business modelling: Linear relationships -- Introduction -- Break-even analysis -- Linear programming -- Solving the linear programme: maximisation -- Solving the linear programme: minimisation -- Review questions -- Chapter 8 Business modelling: Non-linear relationships -- Introduction -- Differentiation -- Turning points -- Rules of differentiation -- Applications of differentiation Partial differentiation -- Integration -- Review questions -- Chapter 9 Project management -- Introduction -- Defining projects -- Planning a project -- Network diagrams -- Critical path analysis -- Gantt charts -- Taking account of uncertainty: PERT -- Project costs and crashing -- Review questions -- Appendix 1 Review of basic mathematics -- Introduction -- Whole numbers, fractions and decimals -- Rounding off -- Percentages and ratios -- Powers and roots -- Simple algebra -- Solving equations -- Simultaneous equations -- Inequalities -- Graphs and functions -- Progressions -- Review questions
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Pearson
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 658.5; Industrial management -- Statistical methods; Commercial statistics; Gestion d'entreprise -- Méthodes statistiques; Commercial statistics; Industrial management -- Statistical methods; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1306771293; 9781306771290; 9780273770619; 0273770616
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