Quantitative Methodsis a comprehensive guide to the techniques any student of business or finance is likely to need. The authors' coaching, learning-by-doing approach coupled with the text's clear structural outline makes these essential mathematical skills far less daunting. A bestselling and popular text in its previous editions, it has been fully updated with: * new 4 color text design * New and improved Companion Website * More empirical examples, from across the business, management and finance spectrum * VLE-compatible web content for Blackboard and WebCT * Updated commands and exercises in light of new version Excel and SPSS * New content on: data mining, OLAP, text mining, non-parametric methods, index numbers, productivity software tools.With its learn-by-doing approach, this guide will appeal to a wide audience, from undergraduates of business and finance to postgrad students studying quants.