Levin, Richard I.

Quantitative approaches to management / Richard I. Levin, Charles A. Kirkpatrick and David S. Rubin. - 5th ed. - New York : McGraw-Hill, 1982. - xix, 763 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Quantitative methods and their supporting information systems -- Probability I: Basic concepts -- Probability II: Distributions -- Forecasting -- Decision making using probabilities I -- Decision making using probabilities II -- Inventory I: Order quantity models -- Inventory II: Reordering, backorders, discounts, material requirements planning -- Linear programming: Introduction to maximization and minimization using graphic methods -- Linear programming: The simplex method: Maximization and minimization -- Linear programming: Economic and operational issues: Duality, infeasibility, unboundness, degeneracy, right-hand-side ranging, changes in objective function coefficients, Linear programming applications, use of the computer in linear programming -- Linear programming: Special purpose algorithms -- Integer programming, branch-and-bound method, goal programming, dynamic programming -- Simulation -- Waiting lines -- Network models -- Markov analysis -- Quantitative methods: perspectives.

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