Machine generated contents note: 1. Key concepts -- Summary -- Ways of looking at data -- Fractions, percentages and proportions -- Index numbers -- Notation -- Probability -- Counting techniques -- The numerical base -- IP addresses -- Encryption -- 2. Finance and investment -- Summary -- Interest -- Annuities -- Investment analysis -- Inflation -- Interest rate problems in disguise -- Exchange rates -- 3. Descriptive measures for interpretation and analysis -- Summary -- Distributions -- Normal distributions -- 4. Tables and charts -- Summary -- Tables -- Charts -- 5. Forecasting techniques -- Summary -- Time series -- Trends -- Seasonal adjustment -- Cycles -- Residuals -- Cause and effect -- Identifying relationships with regression analysis -- Forecast monitoring and review -- 6. Sampling and hypothesis testing -- Summary -- Estimating statistics and parameters -- Confidence -- Other summary measures -- Non-parametric methods -- Hypothesis testing -- 7. Incorporating judgments into decisions -- Summary -- Uncertainty and risk -- Decision trees -- Perfect information -- The expected value of sample information -- Making the final decision -- 8. Decision-making in action -- Summary -- Game strategy -- Queueing -- Stock control -- Markov chains: what happens next? -- Project management -- Simulation -- 9. Linear programming and networks -- Summary -- Identifying the optimal solution -- Traps and tricks -- Multiple objectives -- Barrier/internal point method -- Networks.
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