Quantitative Analysis for Management

by Barry Render, Michael E. Hanna, Ralph M. Stair, et al.

Book Overview

For courses in management science and decision modeling. Foundational understanding of management science through real-world problems and solutions Quantitative Analysis for Management helps students... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0136036252
• ISBN13: 9780136036258
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 748 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.1" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

Great Text

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.

Introduction

We used this book in my "Operations analysis"-class, and it's a great introduction to the subjects discussed. Some very basic probability for estimating values and descision theory. Some regression in addition to other forecasting methods. Good sections on linear and integer programming, and also basic queuing models. Markov analysis is about as far as this book goes, and it basically just touches upon all the subjects in order to make the reader grasp the basic ideas. One minus is the Windows-only software, no Mac-support there, but that only meant that I had to use Excel, which imo helped me gain a better understanding of the subjects, as I had to formulate all the spreadsheets myself instead of just feeding numbers into the QM-package, which imo seems like a total waste of a chance to learn. Anyway, most areas are covered with respect to both QM and Excel, which makes the non-existant Mac-support bareable.

Excellent introduction to the subject

I read this book as the assigned text for a course in Quantitative Analysis and found it to be an excellent text for such a class. Each Model and equation presented is explained through realistic examples, illustrations, and explanations of the math. This made the subject very easy to comprehend and apply to the real world. Exercises at the end of each chapter are also based on real-world situations and case studies are included in the book and the CD that go into more detail about a real world use for each model. The book was also easy to read and not overly technical when explaining mathematic concepts. An excellent text for an introduction to the field of management science.

Great Book

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.

Easy to follow

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