MA-116-1 Statistics Applied in Business Adminstration

Bachelor's Programme in Business Administration , Master's Programme in Business Administration (5-years) , Bachelor's Programme in Auditing

Spring

Norwegian

After the course the students should be able to present and interpret descriptive statistics understand ethical problems when working with experiments understand important basic concepts in probability and statistics use statistical methods including testing and estimation in one and two samples with use of normal distribution and t-distribution, correlation and some analysis of categorized data and simple regression analysis.

The course gives a foundation in probability and statistics with important statistical basic concepts as independence and conditional probability. It will be presented an introduction to statistical thinking, and ethical problems when working with experiments will be discussed. Different statistical distributions and statistical methods will be presented. An introduction in use of some software for data analysis will be given.

Lectures and group work.

All compulsory assignments must have obtained a Pass

A 4-hour written examination. Differentiated grades.

Theoretical

Bachelor

First year.

Associate professor Kirsten Bjørkestøl.

Available on request.

Face-to-face

The syllabus will be published on the home page of the course when finalised. See link in the upper right hand corner of the page.

ME-2100- 1 - 6 ECTS credits
ME-2100- 2 - 6 ECTS credits
ME-2100- G - 6 ECTS credits
ME-2100- G2 - 6 ECTS credits
MA-116- G - 7.5 ECTS credits
MA-123- G - 5 ECTS credits

No

Faculty of Engineering and Science

ECTS Course Catalogue University of Agder 2009-10
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