The new edition remains accessible and provides ideal introductory coverage of quantitative methods. It offers real world business examples and case studies to illustrate problem-solving in empirical situations and provides students with the best software support to enable understanding.
An optional maths revision section to bring all students up to speed
'Did You Know' boxes that provide fun facts about quantitative methods
Practice questions at the end of every chapter
Extensive free online resources, including lecturer slides, a full solutions manual to all the practice questions in the book, bonus case studies, a huge bank of multiple choice questions for students, and more
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'Quantitative Methods in Action' case studies, which open each chapter, are all new for this edition, and cover contemporary topics such as the ebola epidemic, soccer World Cup, and London's vast new railway project Cross-rail
Fully updated coverage of the latest statistical software, Excel 2014 and SPSS 22, illustrated with screenshots
A new chapter 'Managing stock levels: materials management and inventory control'