Quantitative Methods
Quantitative Methods
David Targett
To make decisions you need to have access to information. Business information is often numbers and statistics. The quantitative methods course enables you to make good decisions and to organise and understand numbers. That makes it important for managers.
Topics covered
- Simple uses and misuses of statistics.
- School mathematics applied to management.
- Data communication.
- Data analysis.
- Summary measures.
- Sampling methods.
- Distributions.
- Statistical inference.
- More distributions.
- Analysis of variance.
- Regression and correlation.
- Advanced regression analysis.
- The context of forecasting.
- Time series techniques.
- Managing forecasts.
