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Wednesday 20 April 2011

MBA First year (First Semester) MBA – 2104/50704: QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS SYLLABUS

COURSE OBJETIVES:
The objective of this paper is to acquaint the students with various statistical tools and techniques used to business decision making.
Unit – I Construction of frequency distributions and their analysis in the form of measures of central tendency and variations; types of measures, their relative merits, limitations and characteristics; skew ness; meaning and co-efficient of skewness.
Unit – II Correlation analysis-meaning & types of correlation, Karl Person’s coefficient of correlation and spearman’s rank correlation; regression analysis- meaning and two lines of regression; relationship between correlation and regression co-efficient. Times series analysis- measurement of tend and seasonal variations; time series and forecasting.
Unit – III Probability; basic concept and approaches, addition, multiplication and Bayes’, theorem. Probability distribution-meaning, types and applications, Binomial, Poisson and Normal.
Unit – IV Tests of significance; Hypothesis testing; Large samples, Small samples; chi-square test, Analysis of variance.
Suggested Readings:
1. Levin & Rubins, Staics for Business, Prentice Hall of India, N.Delhi.
2. Gupta S.P. 7 Gupta M.P. Business Statistics, Sultan chand & Sons, Delhi.
3. Anderson, Quantitative Methods in Business, Thomson learning, Bombay.
4. Anderson, Statistic for Business & Economics, Thomson learning, Bombay.
5. Chandan, J.S. An Introduction to Statistical Methods, Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi.
6. Bhardwaj, R.S. Business Statistics, Excel Books, 2000
7. Gupta C.B. & Gupta, Vijay – Business Statistical, Sultan Chand & Sons.
8. Kothari C.R. Quantitative Techniques, Vikas publishing House, New Delhi.
9. Hooda R.P., Statistics for Business & Economics, McMillan India LTD.
Note:
Instruction for External Examiner: The examiner will set 8 questions (2 questions from each unit). The students will be required to attempt five questions (selecting at least one question from each unit). All the five questions will carry equal marks.

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