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Applied Statistics ( forår 2009 - 5 ECTS )

Rammer for udbud

• Uddannelsessprog: dansk
• Niveau: COURSE LEVEL: Compulsory course for BA Business Administration in the second semester. Elective course for Business Administration Minor in the fourth semester.  
• Semester/kvarter: SEMESTER FOR WHICH THE COURSE DESCRIPTION APPLIES: Spring 2009.  
• Timer per uge: NUMBER OF HOURS PER WEEK: 4 lectures and 2 exercises in first 7 weeks of the semester.  
• Deltagerbegrænsning: RESTRICTIONS ON ADMISSION: Only for Business Administration students.  
• Undervisningssted: Århus
• Hovedområde: Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet
• Udbud ID: 15131

Formål

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

The learning objectives are that the participants of this course should be able to

• describe and do simple statistical tests of population parameters based on one and two samples under different distribution assumptions
• do simple graphical test of normality (diagnostics)
• describe and evaluate confidence intervals for population parameters based on one and two samples under different distribution assumptions
• describe and evaluate goodness-of-fit tests on one-dimensional and two-dimensional contingency tables
• formulate a simple or multiple linear regression model for business or economics data and do estimation of the parameters
• apply hypothesis testing concerning the parameters of the regression model and derive forecasts based on the regression model
• evaluate the fit of the regression model by plots of residuals (diagnostics)
• apply their own simple statistical analysis on data describing a business problem.

Indhold

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

The course gives an introduction to statistical methods and data analysis with special relation to business applications.COURSE SUBJECT AREAS:

Scientific communication, rhetoric, discourse analysis, genre theory, writing and argumentation theory.

COURSE SUBJECT AREAS:

1. Theory of estimation and testing hypotheses, revisited
2. Applied estimation and testing hypotheses
3. Tests for comparing two populations
4. Analysis of qualitative data
5. Linear regression analysis.

Faglige forudsætninger

REQUIRED COURSES (progression):

Principles of Statistics

Underviser

LECTURER:

Viggo Høst.

Undervisnings- og arbejdsform

TEACHING METHOD:

The lectures will present the statistical methods, and the applications of the methods will be illustrated by examples. In the exercises the students will work on solving specific statistical problems. Excel will be used as statistical computer program.

TEACHING LANGUAGE:

Danish.

Litteratur

LITERATURE:

Nikolaj Malchow-Møller and Allan Würtz: Indblik i statistik - en grundbog for videregående uddannelser, Gyldendal 2003, Chapters 10-14. A total of approx. 150 pages.

Studieordning og bedømmelse

Grundfaget i erhvervsøkonomi

• Skriftlig, bedømt efter 7-skala med ekstern censur

FORM OF ASSESSMENT:

Two hours written exam. For admission to the exam a compulsory assignment should be answered and approved.

EXAMINATION AIDS ALLOWED: Only a simple calculator that will be provided to the students at the exam.