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Statistics 210: Business Statistics
American Business School Paris
Paris, France
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Instruction in |
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Contact Hours |
Prerequisites |
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Statistics, Economics
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200
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English
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3
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45
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Math 120 (Calculus) or equivalent
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This course provides second year students with an overall picture of the scope and structure of business statistics. The objective of this course is to proovide the students with a practical understanding of some widely used statistical tools and methods and the ability to use this knowledge to prepare a quantitative study, process the gathered data and interpret its results.
INSTRUCTIONAL METHODOLOGY :
The course is developed through lectures, discussion and numerical problem solving sessions. Students are expected to thoroughly read text materials and participate in class discussion. Will be covered in class :
- Introduction : What is statistics ?
- Methods for describing sets of data
- Measures of position ; measures of dispersion
- Relationships between qualitative variables
- Forecasting techniques
- Probability concepts
- Random variables ; probability distributions
- Normal distribution ; estimation of a population mean or proportion
TEXT :
Business Statistics : A Decision-Making Approach, Groebner/Shannon, Prentice-Hall, 6th Ed, 2005
EVALUATION :
The final grade will be made up of a class participation and homework (20%), a mid-term test (40%) and the final examination (40%).
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