Dr. Sam Savage, who's recognized as a leading innovator in management science education, provides the most hands-on
, practical introduction to methods of decision making. This book and accompanying suite of Excel add-ins for quantitative
analysis covers Monte Carlo simulation, decision trees, queuing simulations, optimization, Markov chains, and forecasting.
The Insight add-ins have been developed over several years by the author.
Table of Contents
1. Analytical Modeling in Spreadsheets.
2. The Building Blocks of Uncertainty: Random Variables.
3. The Buildings of Uncertainty: Functions of Random Variables.
4. Uncertainties that Evolve Through Time.
5. Predicting the Future.
6. Decision Making Under Uncertainty.
7. Optimization I: The ABC's.
8. Optimization Ii: Extensions of Optimzation.