BUS4550

Business statistics

(IT)

C White

6 points + 2-hour lecture and 1-hour tutorial per week + Second semester + Clayton + Prohibitions: Students with a tertiary statistics background should substitute another unit

Synopsis: 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: Assignment: 20% + Examination (2 hours): 80%