BA5106 STATISTICS FOR MANAGEMENT

OBJECTIVE: 

• To learn the applications of statistics in business decision making. 

UNIT I               INTRODUCTION 
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 
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
Hypothesis testing: one sample and two sample tests for means and proportions of large samples (ztest), 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 
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.

UNIT V               CORRELATION AND REGRESSION 
Correlation – Coefficient of Determination – Rank Correlation – Regression – Estimation of Regression line – Method of Least Squares – Standard Error of estimate.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS 

OUTCOME: 
         To facilitate objective solutions in business decision making under subjective conditions.

REFERENCES: 
1. Richard I. Levin, David S. Rubin, Sanjay Rastogi Masood Husain Siddiqui, Statistics for Management, Pearson Education, 7th Edition, 2016.
2. Prem.S.Mann, Introductory Statistics, 7th Edition, Wiley India, 2016.
3. Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R, Springer, 2016.
4. Aczel A.D. and Sounderpandian J., “Complete Business Statistics”, 6th edition, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Ltd., New Delhi, 2012.
5. Anderson D.R., Sweeney D.J. and Williams T.A., Statistics for business and economics, 11th edition, Thomson (South – Western) Asia, Singapore, 2012.
6. N. D. Vohra, Business Statistics, Tata McGraw Hill, 2012. 7. Ken Black, Applied Business Statistics, 7th Edition, Wiley India Edition, 2012.