Monash University Computing & Information Technology Handbook 1995

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BUS5550

Business statistics V

C White

6 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; hypotheses testing; regression and correlation; survey sampling.

Assessment

Practical assignment: 30% * Examination (2 hours): 70%

Prescribed texts

Harrison S R and Tamaschke H U Applied statistical analysis Prentice-Hall, 1984


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