EC1101:03
Statistics for Managers
Townsville, Cairns
Prerequisites: Senior Maths B or EC1100
Inadmissable Subject Combination: BH2011 BH2012 MA1401
26 lectures, 24 tutorials. Second semester.
Staff: Ms V Girgenti.
A coverage of basic statistical concepts used in commerce and economics. This includes descriptive statistics, probability analysis and probability distributions, estimation theory, sampling distributions, tests of hypothesis and correlation and simple regression. All statistical applications are demonstrated using Microsoft Excel.
Learning Objectives:
- a knowledge of statistical concepts and the application of various statistical techniques;
- a knowledge on how to solve problems using Microsoft Excel.
Assessment by assignments (10%); in-class test (20%); end-of-semester formal examination (70%).
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