Books by James R. (Rice University Thompson

* First Edition users testify that the book is well written and expertly documented. * The reader is introduced to provocative pointers such as the relevance of graphs, the meaning of interpretation, Henry Ford s Code of Practice, and Deming s 14 points, among others.

This text uses simulation as a computational aid in dealing with and creating models of reality. Its main objective is to incorporate simulation as an integral part of the interaction between data and the models which may have approximately generated them.