Quantitative Analysis for Management

by Render, Barry; Stair, Ralph M.

• ISBN13: 9780130215383
• ISBN10: 0130215384
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

For undergraduate/graduate level courses in Management Science, Quantitative Analysis, and Decision Models. This best-selling text has long been considered one of the most student accessible texts for the management science course. The new edition retains and updates the traditional, comprehensive coverage of past editions but now adds spreadsheet-based problem solutions to most chapters of the text. In addition, the text is now packaged with free software.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Quantitative Analysis	1	(20)
SUPPLEMENT I Game Theory	21	(18)
CHAPTER 2 Probability Concepts and Applications	39	(42)
CHAPTER 3 Fundamentals of Decision Theory Models	81	(36)
CHAPTER 4 Decision Trees and Utility Theory	117	(38)
CHAPTER 5 Forecasting	155	(48)
CHAPTER 6 Inventory Control Models	203	(50)
CHAPTER 7 Linear Programming Models: Graphical and Computer Methods	253	(52)
CHAPTER 8 Linear Programming Modeling Applications: With Computer Analyses in Excel and QM for Windows	305	(40)
CHAPTER 9 Linear Programming: The Simplex Method	345	(62)
CHAPTER 10 Transportation and Assignment Models	407	(66)
CHAPTER 11 Integer Programming, Goal Programming, Nonlinear Programming, and Branch and Bound Models	473	(46)
SUPPLEMENT II Analytic Hierarchy Process	519	(18)
CHAPTER 12 Network Models	537	(30)
CHAPTER 13 Project Management	567	(48)
CHAPTER 14 Waiting Lines and Queuing Theory Models	615	(40)
CHAPTER 15 Simulation Modeling	655	(50)
CHAPTER 16 Markov Analysis	705
CD-ROM MODULES
1 Statistical Quality Control	M1-1
2 Dynamic Programming	M2-1
3 Decision Theory and the Normal Distribution	M3-1
4 Material Requirements Planning and Just-In-Time Inventory	M4-1
5 Mathematical Tools: Determinants and Matrices	M5-1
6 The Binomial Distribution	M6-1