James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2004

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BU1010:03

Business Statistics

Townsville, Cairns, Sydney, Melbourne

HECS Band 2

26 hours lectures, 12 hours tutorials. Semester 2 (Townsville campus, Cairns campus, Melbourne); Semester 1 and 2 (Sydney).

Staff:

Dr R Beg (Townsville campus);

Mr K Gunesh (Cairns campus).

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 SPSS and Excel.

Learning Objectives:

a knowledge of statistical concepts and the application of various statistical techniques;

a knowledge on how to solve problems using SPSS and Microsoft Excel.

Assessment to be advised.