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BA8106 STATISTICS FOR MANAGEMENT mba-syllabus-subject-notes-pevious-year-questions-papers-bank

BA8106 STATISTICS FOR MANAGEMENT mba-syllabus-subject-notes-pevious-year-questions-papers-bank

COURSE OBJECTIVE:
To learn the applications of statistics in business decision making.
COURSE OUTCOME:
To facilitate objective solutions in business decision making under subjective conditions

UNIT I INTRODUCTION 12
Statistics – Definition, Types. Types of variables – Organising data - Descriptive Measures. 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.

UNIT II SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION AND ESTIMATION 12
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.

UNIT III TESTING OF HYPOTHESIS - PARAMETIRC TESTS 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. ANOVA one and two way.

UNIT IV NON-PARAMETRIC TESTS 12
Chi-square test for single sample standard deviation. Chi-square tests for independence of
attributes and goodness of fit. Sign test for paired data. Rank sum test. Kolmogorov-Smirnov – test
for goodness of fit, comparing two populations. Mann – Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis test.
One sample run test, rank correlation.

UNIT V CORRELATION, REGRESSION AND TIME SERIES ANALYSIS 12
Correlation analysis, estimation of regression line. Time series analysis: Variations in time series,
trend analysis, cyclical variations, seasonal variations and irregular variations, forecasting errors.

TEXT BOOKS:
1. Richard I. Levin, David S. Rubin, Statistics for Management, Pearson Education, 7th Edition,
2011.
2. Aczel A.D. and Sounderpandian J., “Complete Business Statistics”, 6th edition, Tata McGraw –
Hill Publishing Company Ltd., New Delhi, 2012.

REFERENCES:
2. Srivatsava TN and Shailaja Rego, Statistics for Management, Tata McGraw Hill, 2008.
3. Ken Black, Applied Business Statistics, 7th Edition, Wiley India Edition, 2012.
4. Anderson D.R., Sweeney D.J. and Williams T.A., Statistics for business and economics, 11th
edition, Thomson (South – Western) Asia, Singapore, 2012.
5. N. D. Vohra, Business Statistics, Tata McGraw Hill, 2012.

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