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Tables of Contents for For All Practical Purposes
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
v
Reference Chart to Textbook
vii
PART I Management Science/Joseph Malkevitch, Rochelle Meyer, Walter Meyer
1
42
Introduction
1
1
Overview Show
1
2
Street Smarts: Street Networks
3
8
Trains, Planes, and Critical Paths
11
10
Juggling Machines: Scheduling Problems
21
12
Juicy Problems: Linear Programming
33
10
PART II Statistics/David S. Moore
43
26
Introduction
43
1
Overview Show
43
1
Behind the Headlines: Collecting Data
44
7
Picture This: Organizing Data
51
6
Place Your Bets: Probability
57
5
Confident Conclusions: Statistical Inference
62
7
PART III Social Choice/William F. Lucas
69
18
Introduction
69
1
Overview Show
69
2
The Impossible Dream: Election Theory
71
5
More Equal Than Others: Weighted Voting
76
3
Zero-Sum Games: Games of Conflict
79
4
Prisoner's Dilemma: Games of Partial Conflict
83
4
PART IV On Size and Shape/Paul Campbell, Donald J. Albers, Donald Crowe, Seymour Schuster, Maynard Thompson
87
24
Introduction
87
1
Overview Show
87
2
How Big is Too Big: Scale and Form
89
5
It Grows and Grows: Populations
94
5
Stand Up Conic: Conic Sections
99
6
It Started in Greece: Measurement
105
6
PART V Computer Science/Zaven Kariat Wayne Carlson, Sartaj Sahni, Paul Wang
111
1
Introduction
111
1
Overview Show
111
2
Rules of the Game: Algorithms:
113
4
Counting by Two's: Numerical Representation
117
4
Creating a Code: Encoding Information
121
3
Moving Picture Show: Computer Graphics
124