QUA107

Provide students with the concepts and special skills for simple and compound interest to improve financial decision-making in business firm.

Text Book: Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics , By Douglas A. Lind, William G. Marchal, and Samuel A. Wathen.

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Course Outlines

Chapter	Title	Topics	No. Week
1	Basic Concepts of Statistics	Introduction - What is Meant by Statistics? -  Types of Statistics - Population versus Sample - Types of Variables - Levels of Measurement.	1
2	Describing Data: Frequency Distributions and Graphic Presentation.	Introduction - Constructing a Frequency Table – Bar Chart – Pie Chart. Constructing a Frequency distribution - Relative Frequency Distribution - Histograms - Frequency polygons - Cumulative frequency distributions.	2
3	Describing Data:  Numerical Measures	Introduction - Population Mean - Sample Mean – Properties  of the Arithmetic Mean –The Median - Properties of the Median -  The Mode - The Relative Positions of the Mean, Median and Mode –Why Study Dispersion - Measures of Dispersion - Range -Mean Deviation  - Variance and Standard Deviation - The Arithmetic Mean of Grouped Data - Variance  and Standard Deviation for  Grouped Data.	2
4	Describing Data: Displaying and Exploring Data	Introduction – Dot Plots - Stem and Leaf – Quartiles, Deciles and Percentiles - Box plots.	1
5	A Survey of Probability Concepts	Introduction – What is a Probability – Approaches to Assigning Probabilities - Classical Probability - Mutually Exclusive Events - Collectively Exhaustive Events - Rules for Computing Probabilities –Rules of addition – Rules of Multiplication - Conditional Probability - Contingency Tables.	1
6	Probability Distributions	Probability Distribution - Characteristics of a Probability Distribution - Random Variables - The Mean of a Probability Distribution - The Variance, and Standard Deviation of a Probability Distribution.	1
	Discrete Probability Distributions	Binomial Probability Distribution - Poisson Probability Distribution.	1
7	Continuous Probability Distributions	Characteristics of a Normal Probability Distribution - The Normal Probability Distribution.	1
8	Sampling Methods	Need for sampling – Methods of sampling: Simple Random Sampling, Systematic Sampling, Stratified Sampling, Cluster Sampling.	1
	Sampling distributions	Concept of sampling distribution. Sampling distribution of sample mean.	1
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