Monash University Handbooks 2008

FIT4024 - Business Statistics and Applications

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate, Postgraduate Faculty of Information Technology

Leader: Shyh Wei Teng

Offered

Gippsland Second semester 2008 (Off-campus)
Hong Kong Second semester 2008 (Off-campus)
Singapore Second semester 2008 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

Introduction to quantitative methods and statistics in business and commerce. 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, marginal analysis, frequency and probability distributions, regression and correlation, simple hypothesis testing, sampling methods and applications, statistics in quality management with applications in service and production industry.

Assessment

Assignments: 30%
Examination:70%

Prerequisites

Normal entry to the Master of Business Systems course will ensure a suitable level of quantitative skills. Students should be familiar with the operation of a personal computer and a basic calculator.

Prohibitions

Translation set GCO4807

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