Introduciton to business statistics

A- Basic Information
Course Title:  INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS IN BUSINESS
Programme: Undergraduate
Credits Hours: Theoretical           3                            Practical               1
Target Students: This course is designed for college of business                                   administration's students as an introduction to statistics.
Department offering the course: Quantitative Analysis Department (QUA)
B- Professional Information
Provide students with the concepts and special skills for collecting, classifying, analyzing and presenting the data	1- Overall aims of course
- Collecting, tabulating and presenting of data. - Measures of central tendency. - Measures of dispersion - Index numbers. - Principles of probability. - Probability Distributions	2- Course brief Contents
- lectures - exercises - cases studies - Group discussions	3- Teaching and Learning     Methods
4- Students Assessments
- Medterm Exam - Weekly Homework - Final exam	4/1- Tools
-First Exam: 29/5/1437 (9/3/2016) -Unified Exam: TBA Replacement Exam: TBA You are required to attend the Unified exam. If you miss the unified exam and you have a valid excuse you will be allowed to enter the replacement exam otherwise you will miss the 30 points.	4/2- Time Schedule
- First Exam: 20 Marks - Unified Exam: 30 Marks - Weekly attendance and participation: 10 Marks - Final exam:     40 Marks
5- List of references
By lectures	5/1- Text notes
Text Book: Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics (2010) By Douglas A. Lind, William G. Marchal, and Samuel A. Wathen.	5/2- Text books