BU General Statistics

Instructor: Charles Brewster

Hours: 24

Meeting times: TBA

Credits hours: 2

Course description: Business 320

Methodology:

You will learn about the nature and design of observation and experiments. This will include concepts of descriptive statistics, measures of location and spread, the normal curve, correlation and regression. Understand chance variability, probability distributions, random variables, binomial distribution, expectations and variances. Also covers sampling variability, estimation, confidence intervals, tests of significance, categorical data, correlation and regression (with inference), one-way and two-way analysis of variance and non-parametric methods.

Course Outcomes:

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Evaluation:

Attendance, assignments, Final essay

Prerequisite courses or equivalent knowledge:

Mathematics 12

Resources used:

Statistics, 3rd edition. Freedman Pisani Purves and Adhikari. Norton, USA, 1996