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
Objectives This subject provides an introduction to quantitative methods and statistics in business and commerce.
Synopsis 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 Written assignment: 20%
* Examination (2 hours): 80%
Recommended texts
Harrison S R and Tamaschke H U Statistics for business, economics and management Prentice-Hall, 1993
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