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BUS 226
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Title: | Business Statistics |
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Course Description: | Focuses on statistical study, descriptive statistics, probability, binominal distribution, index numbers, time series, decision theory, confidence intervals, linear regression, and correlation. Intended for the business major. |
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
1. Describe the nature and implication of basic principles of statistics and how they play an important role in our daily lives
2. Organize and summarize data, and represent graphically the important information contained in a data set
3. Compute numerical quantities that measure the central tendency and dispersion of a set of data
4. Understand the basic properties of probability
5. Determine probabilities using postulates, rules of probability and various probability distribution tables
6. Distinguish between discrete and continuous variables
7. Compute the mean and standard deviation of a probability distribution
8. Test hypotheses by using the appropriate distribution and constructing confidence intervals about means, standard deviations, and proportions
9. Use methods for estimating some population parameters
10. Understand and apply the basic concepts of statistical inference to the decision making process
11. Fit a least-square line to a set of data and interpret the coefficient of correlation
12. Use a statistical software package in performing statistical computations
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. The nature of probability and statistics
II. Frequency distributions and graphs
III. Data description
IV. Counting techniques
V. Probability
VI. Probability distributions
VII. The normal distribution
VIII. Confidence intervals and sample size
IX. Hypothesis testing
X Testing the difference between means, variances, and proportions
XI. Correlation and regression
XII. Chi-square and analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
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