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This document outlines the course structure and content for a statistics course for management students. The course is divided into 5 units that will be covered over the semester: 1) probability, 2) sampling distribution and estimation, 3) testing of hypotheses, 4) non-parametric methods, and 5) correlation, regression, and time series analysis. The course aims to teach basic statistical concepts and their application to business problems. Suggested textbooks are provided.

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MBA Syllabus

This document outlines the course structure and content for a statistics course for management students. The course is divided into 5 units that will be covered over the semester: 1) probability, 2) sampling distribution and estimation, 3) testing of hypotheses, 4) non-parametric methods, and 5) correlation, regression, and time series analysis. The course aims to teach basic statistical concepts and their application to business problems. Suggested textbooks are provided.

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M.B.A.

I SEMESTER

BA1601 STATISTICS FOR MANAGEMENT 3 1 0 100

UNIT1. PROBABILITY

Basic definitions and rules for Probability - Conditional Probability –


Independence of Events
Baye’s theorem, and random variables, Probability distributions: Binomial, Poisson,
Uniform and Normal distributions.
2. SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION AND ESTIMATION: 9
Introduction to sampling distributions, sampling distribution of mean and proportion,
application of central limit theorem, sampling techniques. Estimation: Point and Interval
estimates for population parameters of large sample and small samples, determining the
sample size.
3. TESTING OF HYPOTHESIS: 12
Hypothesis testing: one sample and two sample tests for means and proportions of large
samples (z-test), one sample and two sample tests for means of small samples (t-test), F-
test for two sample standard deviations, Chi-square test for single sample standard
deviation. Chi-square tests for independence of attributes and goodness of fit.
4. NON-PARAMETRIC METHODS: 6
Sign test for paired data. Rank sum test: Mann – Whitney U test and kruskal Wallis test.
One sample run test, rank correlation.
5. CORRELATION, REGRESSION AND TIME SERIES ANALYSIS 9

Correlation analysis, estimation of regression line. Time series analysis:


Variations in time series, trend analysis, cyclical variations, seasonal variations
and irregular variations.
TOTAL : 45

TEXT BOOKS:
1. Levin R.I. and Rubin D.S., “Statistics for management”, 7th edition, Prentice
Hall of India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2001.
2. Aczel A.D. and Sounderpandian J., “Complete Business Statistics”, 5th edition,
Tata McGraw – Hill Publishing Company Ltd., New Delhi, 2004.
3. Anderson D.R., Sweeney D.J. and Williams T.A., “Statistics for business and
economics”, 8th edition, Thomson (South – Western) Asia Pte. Ltd.,
Singapore, 2002.

REFERENCES:
1. Levine D.M., Krehbiel T.C. and Berenson M.L., “Business Statistics: A First
Course”, Pearson Education Asia, 2nd edition, New Delhi, 2002.
2. Hooda R.P., Statistics for Business and Economics”, 2nd edition, Macmillan India
Ltd., 2001.
3. Morse L.B., “Statistics for Business and Economics”, HarperCollins college
Publishers, New York, 1993.
4. Bowerman B.L., Connel R.T.O’ and Hand M.L., “Business Statistics in Pratice”, 2nd
edition, McGraw-Hill / Irwin, 2001.
5. Gupta S.C. and Kapoor V.K., “Fundamentals of Mathematical Statistics”, Sultan
Chand & Sons, New Delhi, 2002.

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