Quantitative Analysis for Management and Student CD-ROM, Eighth Edition [Hardcover]

Barry Render (Author), Ralph M. Stair (Author), Michael E. Hanna (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0130783862 | ISBN-13: 978-0130783868 | Publication Date: June 12, 2002 | Edition: 8

This best-selling volume has long been considered one of the most user accessible books for management science. The new edition retains and updates the traditional, comprehensive coverage of past editions but now adds spreadsheet-based problem solutions to most chapters. In addition, the book is now packaged with free software. The authors provide a comprehensive introduction to quantitative analysis, probability concepts and applications and decision theory models, as well as forecasting, control models, linear programming models and applications, transportation and assignment models, integer programming, goal programming, nonlinear programming, and branch and bound models, network models, project management, lines and queuing theory models and statistical quality control. For those interested in a comprehensive, yet accessible presentation of QM for management.

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This easy-to-use text provides students with the skills to apply the techniques of quantitative analysis in all kinds of organizational decision-making situations. Designed for optimum teaching flexibility, it covers every major topic in the quantitative analysis/management science field, showing how each technique works, discussing the assumptions and limitations of the models, and illustrating the real-world usefulness of each technique with many applications in both profit-making and nonprofit organizations. Dramatically revised, the Sixth Edition now offers a completely new look and feel to make teaching more efficient and enhance students' learning experience. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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This best-selling volume has long been considered one of the most user accessible books for management science. The new edition retains and updates the traditional, comprehensive coverage of past editions but now adds spreadsheet-based problem solutions to most chapters. In addition, the book is now packaged with free software. The authors provide a comprehensive introduction to quantitative analysis, probability concepts and applications and decision theory models, as well as forecasting, control models, linear programming models and applications, transportation and assignment models, integer programming, goal programming, nonlinear programming, and branch and bound models, network models, project management, lines and queuing theory models and statistical quality control. For those interested in a comprehensive, yet accessible presentation of QM for management.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 744 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 8 edition (June 12, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130783862
• ISBN-13: 978-0130783868
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,485,578 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, December 11, 2001

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This review is from: Quantitative Analysis for Management (7th Edition) (Hardcover)

I had one of the worst instructors on the planet this semester. I literally had to teach myself this entire course.
This book made it so much easier. Great diagrams, simple explanations. I ended up with an A.

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Easy to follow, September 17, 2000

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This review is from: Quantitative Analysis for Management (7th Edition) (Hardcover)

This book is easy to follow and the included cd makes solving the problems easy. It also has online links for each chapter.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Text, February 11, 2010

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This review is from: Quantitative Analysis for Management (10th Edition) (Hardcover)

This text is very well written and is easy to read and understand. I'm definately not a "math person", but this text begins at such a fundamental level and is so thorough that even I am doing well in my online course.