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Discusses the education, training, and skills needed for careers involving the use of quantitative techniques and describes a variety of career choices, including market research, information analysis, demography, engineering, and financial management.
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Careers for Number Crunchers & Other Quantitative Types
author
:
Burnett, Rebecca E.
publisher
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NTC Contemporary
isbn10 | asin
:
0844281360
print isbn13
:
9780844281360
ebook isbn13
:
9780071404365
language
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English
subject
Mathematics--Vocational guidance, Statistics--Vocational guidance, Business mathematics--Vocational guidance.
publication date
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1993
lcc
:
QA10.5.B87 1993eb
ddc
:
510/.23
subject
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Mathematics--Vocational guidance, Statistics--Vocational guidance, Business mathematics--Vocational guidance.
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Careers for Number Crunchers & Other Quantitative Types
Rebecca Burnett
VGM Career Horizons a division of NTC Publishing Group Lincolnwood, Illinois USA
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Burnett, Rebecca E., Careers for number crunchers & other quantitative types / Rebecca E. Burnett.
p. cm. (VGM careers for you series) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-8442-8136-0 ISBN 0-8442-8137-9 (soft) 1. MathematicsVocational guidance. 2. StatisticsVocational guidance. 3. Business mathematicsVocational guidance. I. Title. II. Title: Careers for number crunchers and other quantitative types. III. Series. QA10.5.B87 1992 510'.23dc209224334 CIP
1996 Printing
Published by VGM Career Horizons, a division of NTC Publishing Group. 1993 by NTC Publishing Group, 4255 West Touhy Avenue, Lincolnwood (Chicago), Illinois 60646-1975 U.S.A. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of NTC Publishing Group. Manufactured in the United States of America.
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Dedication To my son, Bob, a number cruncher in spirit and profession.
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Contents
About the Author
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Foreword
xv
Chapter One Careers for Number Crunchers: Where the Jobs Are
1
Chapter Two Tracking Debits and Credits
12
Chapter Three Managing Money and Cash Flow
26
Chapter Four Guiding Investments
42
Chapter Five Buying in the Workplace
53
Chapter Six Marketing and Selling in the Workplace
66
Chapter Seven Applying Quantitative Thinking
82
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Chapter Eight Calculating Probabilities and Risks
100
Chapter Nine Investigating the Biological and Physical Universe
117
Chapter Ten Sharing Number-Crunching Know-How
134
Chapter Eleven Managing Quantitative Careers
150
Chapter Twelve Jobs with Number Crunching for Non-Number Crunchers
166
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About the Author
Rebecca E. Burnett is an assistant professor of Rhetoric and Professional Communication at Iowa State University where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in technical communication and rhetorical analysis. She also has many years of experience as a high school teacher and as a writer. Her primary research involves examining individual and social factors that affect coauthors' collaborative planning of documents. Recently she also has explored writers' uses of metaphor in technical and scientific texts.
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