The book is an attempt to consider techniques which treat quite sophisticated and difficult problems; so, even though we tried t choose the simplest means of exposition-avoiding proofs and much of the characteristic rigor of such treatments-the essential subtlety of the techniques remains. These attributes can be understood only by patient application of effort over protracted period of time.
This book is the ninth edition of Quantitative Analysis for Business Decisions. This edition is a major revision-sufficiently major that the title has been changed to Quantitative Analysis for Management. Major changes include format, chapter coverage, motivating examples, and spreadsheet friendliness.
The entire book has been made "spreadsheet-friendly" throughout. We have focused on Excel and have added many examples of the use of spreadsheets in quantitative modeling. We have also added Appendixes eith more detail on the use of Excel for both simulation and the soultion of linear programming problems using Solver.
Part 1 Modeling and Optimization
1. Introduction to Analysis and Model Building
2. Introduction to Linear Programming
3. Solution of Linear Programming Problems
4. Special Topics in Mathematical Programming
Part 2 Decision Analysis
5. Introduction to Probability
6. Decision Making under Uncertainty
7. Decision and Risk Analysis
Part 3 Application Areas
8 Inventory Control and Management
9. Queuing Theory: Congestion in Processing Systems
10. Simulation
11. PERT: Program Evaluation and Review Technique
12. Forecasting