Skip to content | Change text size
Handbooks Courses Units Related information
 

MAT1097 - Quantitative analysis

6 points, SCA Band 0 (NATIONAL PRIORITY), 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate Faculty of Information Technology

Leader(s): Alistair Carr

Offered

Gippsland First semester 2009 (Day)
Gippsland First semester 2009 (Off-campus)
Singapore First semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

Topics covered include: The processes of modelling and analysis as a basis for decision making. Solution of linear systems, introduction to linear programming and its applications. Statistics: collection, presentation and interpretation of data, including time series data; simple linear regression and correlation. Probability, random variables and their distributions, application to decision-making under uncetainty. Populations and samples: sampling distribution of the sample mean; interval estimation and hypothesis testing for a population mean and proportion and for the difference between two means and proportions.

Objectives

On completion of this unit students will be able to use some of the basic mathematical and statistical techniques applicable to analysis of business problems and to making decisions based on such analysis; they will also be able to implement these techniques using spreadsheet software and linked analysis tools.

Assessment

Assignments and class test: 40%
Examination: (3 hours): 60%

Contact hours

Three x 1hr lectures/week, two x 1hr tutorials/week

Prohibitions

MAT1060, MTH1210, ETX1642, GAS1751, STA1010, ETW1102

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/units.mat1097

[an error occurred while processing this directive]