Part One – Background                                                                                                  

1    Managers and numbers                                                                                                

2    Calculations and equations                                                                                            

3    Drawing graphs                                                                                                           

Part Two – Collecting and summarising data                                                                 

4    Collecting data                                                                                                             

5    Diagrams for presenting data                                                                                        

6    Using numbers to describe data                                                                                    

7    Describing changes with index numbers                                                                        

Part Three – Solving management problems                                                                 

8    Finance and performance                                                                                             

9    Regression and curve fitting                                                                                          

10   Forecasting                                                                                                                  

11   Linear programming                                                                                                     

Part Four – Introducing statistics                                                                                   

12   Uncertainty and probabilities                                                                                         

13   Probability distributions                                                                                                 

14   Using samples                                                                                                             

15   Testing hypotheses                                                                                                       

Part Five – Management problems with uncertainty                                                     

16   Making decisions                                                                                                         

17   Quality management                                                                                                    

18   Inventory management                                                                                                 

19   Project networks                                                                                                          

20   Queues and simulation                                                                                                  

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