Business statistics IV
C White
7 points * One 2-hour lecture and one 1-hour tutorial per week * First semester * Clayton * Prohibitions: Students with a tertiary statistics background should substitute another subject
This subject provides an introduction to quantitative methods and statistics in business and commerce. The main topics include presentation of business data; index numbers; financial and economic performance indicators; accessing and using Australian Bureau of Statistics data; measures of central tendency and dispersion; probability; marginal analysis; frequency and probability distributions; hypothesis testing; regression and correlation; survey sampling.
Assessment
Written assignment: 30% * Examination (2 hours): 70%
Prescribed texts
Harrison S R and Tamaschke H U Applied statistical analysis Prentice-Hall, 1984