Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition
To lecturers who used the last edition
To the student ... please read this first
Choosing books for further work
Acknowledgements
Guided tour of the book

Essential Maths

1 Numbers and symbols
2 Simplifying expressions
3 Solving problems
4 Modelling using straight lines

More Maths

1 Some special equations
2 Modelling using curves
3 Rates of change

Describing Data

1 Pictures of data
2 Summarising data

Probability

1 Measuring uncertainty
2 Numerical outcomes
3 Continuous numerical outcomes
4 Some more probability distributions

Statistics

1 Estimation
2 Testing hypotheses
3 Correlation and regression
4 Comparing two populations
5 Nonparametric methods
6 Categorical data
7 Forecasting
8 Statistics in practice

Business Modelling

1 Linear programming models
2 Planning projects
3 Models for inventory control
4 Time and money
5 Decision making
6 Simulating reality
7 Controlling quality

Statistical tables
Index