Quantitative management : a self-teaching guide / Kenneth C. Schneider and C. Randall Byers

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PART I: INTRODUCTION TO QUANTITATIVE MANAGEMENT -- 1. Breakeven Analysis -- 2. Inventory Management -- 3. Project Scheduling and Control -- PART II: MANAGERIAL DECISION MAKING -- 4. Introduction to Probability -- 5. Decision Making: Conditions of Uncertainty -- 6. Decision Making: Conditions of Risk -- 7. Decision Making: Bayesian Analysis Using Sample Information -- PART III: LINEAR PROGRAMMING -- 8. Linear Programming: Graphical Method -- 9. Linear Programming: Simplex Solution Method I Linear Programming: Simplex Solution Method II -- PART IV: TRANSPORTATION AND ASSIGNMENT METHODS -- 10. The Transportation Method -- 11. The Assignment Method -- PART V: QUEUING AND SIMULATION MODELS -- 12. Queuing Models -- 13. Simulation Models.

This book was written to help you learn how to use quantitative methods effectively. Many people who are studying quantitative methods, management science, or operations research often feel a need for additional practice in working with topics in those areas. In writing this book we have designed a series of examples and problems that will give you added insight into the mathematical methods associated with quantitative management. Although we have assumed that our readers will have had a course in college algebra and possibly a course in business statistics, examples and problems in this book usually require only minimal reliance on this mathematical background.