Quantitative Methods
Applications to Managerial Decision Making
Published on 3. February 1988
Book
Paperback/Softback
854 pages
978-0-471-85931-4 (ISBN)
Description
Designed especially for quantitative business analysis (QBA), this book covers a broad field of quantitative methods and applications to managerial decision making. It provides a survey of modern management techniques such as probability concepts, forecasting, linear programming and model formulation, post-optimality analysis and utility theory. Extensive treatment of computer techniques is integrated into the text, including illustrations of both mainframe and microcomputer uses and up-to-date coverage of recent popular software packages. Techniques such as simplex or branch are repeatedly demonstrated with numerical examples so that the reader's comprehension is continually reinforced.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
Ill.
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 200 mm
Weight
1644 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-85931-4 (9780471859314)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Probability Concepts; Probability Distribution; Decision and Utility Theory; Forecasting; Introduction to Linear Programming and Model Formulation; Graphical Solution of Linear Programming Problems; The Simplex Method; Postoptimality Analysis; Goal Programming; Transportation, Transshipment, and Assignment Problems; Network Models; PERT/CPM; Integer Programming Models; Inventory Analysis: Deterministic Models; Inventory Analysis: Probabilistic Models; Waiting Line Models; Computer Simulation; Other Quantitative Models; Implementation and Integration of Management Science Techniques in the Decision Framework; Appendixes; Index.