Quantitative Analysis Basics

Author: Bao Xianglin
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Publish Date: 2003-05-01
Features: This book is one of the "MPA Series Textbooks." The MPA (Master of Public Administration) program aims to cultivate high-level applied talents engaged in public management, public affairs, and policy analysis. This textbook focuses on practical social issues and emphasizes the development of students' practical skills. Through numerous examples, it integrates theory and concepts. The book contains approximately 150,000 words and covers topics such as: classification and organization of statistical data, indices, events and probability, random variables and random vectors, analysis of variance and regression analysis, linear programming and dynamic programming, decision analysis, input-output analysis, etc. The content is very fundamental and straightforward, making it easy to read for readers with basic knowledge of elementary calculus and linear algebra. Most of the material in this book has been taught by the author at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in related disciplines. To fully cover the book would require about 108 teaching hours. For self-study purposes, each chapter includes exercises with answers or hints, and it is hoped that readers will complete most of them. This book is also a valuable reference for MBA, EMBA, and other students in economics and management-related fields.