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CHRIST UNIVERSITY, BANGALORE -29

Department of Management studies

II Sem BBM Course Plan 2010 - 11

Subject : Business Statistics

Paper Code : BBM 233

Faculty ; Roy Mathew / Sunitha Panickar / Leena James

Course Objectives: The major objectives are

1. To give the students a basic knowledge of Statistical methods and theirapplications

2. To develop analytical skills among students.

3. To use these techniques for making better decisionsPrescribed course text1. Business Statistics by J K SHARMA PEARSON EDUCATIONSuggested Readings

1. G C Beri- TMH Publication2. Statistical methods by S P Gupta Sultan Chand

Assessment Pattern

Tests and end semester exams

Micro Projects

Class Participation / evaluation

Presentations / Seminars

Course Plan

Week Unit Topic No.of

hours

Dates Methodology

Week

1

1 IntroductionDevelopment of statistics, Analyticalstatistics, computer in statistics.

Need for research, Data collection,

Sources of data for research, methods of

primary data collection,sample and population, need for

sampling, types of sampling.

3 hrs

1

1

1

8h to 13th

Nov 10

Lecture /

discussionAnd micro

project

1 Summarizing dataclassification, tabulation,

frequency distributionData presentation Diagrammatic

representation of data

graphic representation of data

4hrs

1

11

1

(10th to

30th Nov)

Learn through

micro

projects/selfstudy

Week

2

2 Measures of central tendency and

dispersion

Arithmetic mean,

Weighted mean,

8hrs

11

1

15th to 20th

Nov

Lecture /self

study

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median,

mode,

1

Week3

2 range, quartile deviation,mean deviation,

standard deviation,coefficient of variation

11

11

22nd 27thnov

Lecture

Week4

3 Linear correlationScatter diagram,

Karl Pearson s and

Spearmans methods,

4hrs1

2

1

29nd to 4thDec

Discussions/lecture

Week

5

3 Linear Regression

Regression coefficients,

lines of regression,problems

relation between correlation coefficientand regression coefficients

3hrs

11

1

6th to 9th

Dec

Lecture

Week

6

4 ProbabilityProbability distributions meaning

Discrete and continuous p.d,Normal distribution

3hrs

1

11

13th to 18h

Dec

Lecture

Week7

5 Sampling distributionSampling and non sampling errors

Sampling distribution of a statistic,

sampling from finite population, standarderror, utility of S.E

2hrs1

1

21 to 22ndDec

Lecture

Week8

5 EstimationConfidence Interval estimation of mean,

proportion,

4hrs

3th

to 8th

Jan 11

Lecture

Week9

6 Hypothesis testing INull and alternative hypotheses,

significance level, confidence level,

Type I and Type II errors, critical region.

4hrs1

1

11

10th to 15thJan

Lecture

MID SEMESTER EXAMS

Week

10

6 Hypothesis testing II

Large and small sample testsTest for single mean and

Test for difference of means

Problemstest for single proportion

and test for difference of proportions

6hrs

11

1

11

1

27th to 29rd

Jan

Field work

application

Week

11

6 Testing- contdt test for single mean and

4hrs

1

31st Jan to

5th Feb

Application

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t test for single proportion,

Chi square test for independence ofattributes.

Problems

1

11

Week

12 &13

7 Time series Analysis and Forecasting

Importance, components, Trend Freehand method,method of semi averages,

method of moving averages,

problems

method of least squaresproblems

Forecasting methods of forecasting

7hrs

111

1

1

11

7th Feb to

19th

Feb

Lecture

Week

14 &

15

8 Index Numbers

Introduction- Uses of Index numbers -

types

Problems in the construction of Indexnumbers,

Method of Constructing index numbers.

problems

Tests of consistency of Index number-Unit test, Time Reversal Test, Factor

Reversal Test,

Cost of living Index Number,WPI, IIP

7hrs

1

11

1

1

1

1

21rd Feb to

5th Mar Lecture

Week16

Revision 3hrs 7th 11thMar

ASSESSMENTS

Sl

no

Assessme

nt

Topic Mode of

assessmen

t

Date of

announceme

nt

Date of

Submissio

n

Mark

s

1 CIA 2 Diagrammatic

and graphic

representation

Micro

project

10th Nov 10 30th

Nov10

20

2 CIA 3 Estimation and

Hypothesis

Testing

Quiz 31st Jan 11 7th Feb

11

10

3 CIA 3 Any topic Evaluatio

ns

Dec 10 Dec/Jan 10

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