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About the Author

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With more than 30 years experience as an award-winning teacher and researcher in the area of statistics and quantitative methods, Dr. Ned Freed has served on the faculties of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, the University of Maine, in Orono, Maine, and the University of Portland, in Portland, Oregon. Professor Freed graduated from Boston College with a B.S. in mathematics, earned an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and holds a PhD in management science from the University of Colorado. He has authored a number of articles dealing with mathematical programming applications to statistical problems and has worked extensively with Prof. Fred Glover at the University of Colorado to produce linear programming alternatives to conventional methods of multivariate discriminant analysis.

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You can download detailed solutions to all the even-numbered exercises in the text, as well as selected data sets and other supporting materials by RIGHT clicking on the links below and selecting "SAVE TARGET as ..."

SOLUTIONS-

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13

SELECTED DATA SETS-

Chapter 2 Chapter 3

DATA SETS FOR THE EXCEL EXERCISES-

Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 7 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13

EXCEL INSTRUCTIONS-

EXCEL 2003 Part A EXCEL 2003 Part B

EXCEL 2007 Part A EXCEL 2007 Part B

EXCEL 2010 Part A EXCEL 2010 Part B

EXCEL TEMPLATES-

Chi-Square Payoff Tables

Forecasting Quality Control

Instructor Solutions Manual

To request the instructor's version of the solutions manual, which contains comprehensive solutions for all the exercises in the text, you will need to email the author and verify your teaching status.Once your teaching status is verified, we will be happy to provide the complete solutions manual on a CD or as an email attachment.



Latest notes

Aug 1, 2011:
Updated EXCEL 2010 instructions for the end-of-chapter exercises are included

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