Quantitative Analysis for Management /

Render, Barry,

Quantitative Analysis for Management / Barry Render, Ralph M. Stair. - Sixth edition. Annotated instructor's edition. - xxiii, 40, xxiii, 840 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm + 1 computer disk (3 1/2 in.) - Prentice Hall series in decision sciences .

System requirements to run QM for Windows 1.0 software : any 80386, 486, Pentium, or PS/2 with Microsoft Windows 3.1 installed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. Introduction to Quantitative Analysis -- Supplement to Chapter 1: Game Theory -- Ch. 2. Fundamentals of Decision Theory -- Supplement to Chapter 2: Probability Concepts and Distributions -- Ch. 3. Decision Trees and Utility Theory -- Supplement to Chapter 3: Decision Theory and the Normal Distribution -- Ch. 4. Statistical Quality Control -- Ch. 5. Forecasting -- Ch. 6. Inventory Control Models -- Supplement to Chapter 6: Material Requirements Planning and Just-In-Time Inventory -- Ch. 7. Linear Programming: Graphical and Computer Methods -- Ch. 8. Linear Programming Applications: With Computer Analyses in QM for Windows, LINDO, and Excel -- Ch. 9. Linear Programming: The Simplex Method -- Ch. 10. Transportation and Assignment Problems -- Ch. 11. Integer Programming, Goal Programming, and the Branch and Bound Method -- Supplement to Chapter 11: The Analytic Hierarchy Process -- Ch. 12. Network Models --
Ch. 13. Project Management -- Ch. 14. Waiting Lines and Queuing Theory -- Ch. 15. Simulation --
Ch. 16. Markov Analysis -- Supplement to Chapter 16: Mathematical Tools: Determinants and Matrices -- Ch. 17. Dynamic Programming -- App. A. Area Under the Standard Normal Table --
App. B. Unit Normal Loss Integral --
App. C. Values for e[superscript -[lambda]] --
App. D. Using QM for Windows --
App. E. Solutions to Selected Problems --
App. F. Solutions to Self-Tests

0132587408 (Annotated Instr. ed.) 0135697409 (3 1/2 disk) 9780132587402


Management science.
Operations research

658.403 / R.B.Q.