Quantitative Methods for Business Decisions

This new edition contains clear and readable explanations of the statistical and mathematical methods most commonly taught in quantitative courses in business studies, marketing, finance, accounting, economics and public administration. The authors make few assumptions about the reader's previous knowledge and the necessary mathematics is developed within the context of each topic as it arises. There is a wealth of worked examples and exercises which have been added to and fully revised for the fourth edition including six new in-depth case studies. Microstats, a public domain software package, is provided in a 3.5" floppy disk included in the book. This provides an easy-to-use software tool and contains data sets from the cases and exercises downloaded in Excel and Lotus 123. Clear explanations for the use of Minitab, SPSS, Lotus 123 and Excel are provided within each chapter and topic.