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

On successful completion of the course, the student 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.

Students must pass the compulsory assignemets in order to take the examination.

A 4-hour written examination. Graded assessment.

Theoretical

First cycle

First year of bachelor's programme

Associate professor Kirsten Bjørkestøl.

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 2010-11
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