STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS DECISIONS (PRACTICAL)

Paper Code:

ATG / BSG/ FSG 225

Credits:

6

Contact Hours:

90.00

Max. Marks:

100.00

Objective:

Learning outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

CO55: Examine the basic concept of common parametric and non-parametric tests.

CO56: Appraise simple regressions and multivariate analysis.

CO57: Organize and appraise the results produced by statistical software

CO58: Formulate and solve problems in a systematic approach.

CO59: Examine and Appraise different non parametric tests.

CO60: Organize and evaluate various techniques of advanced analysis for research work.

Interactive Lectures, Group Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Workshops and question preparation

Quiz, test, assignments, viva-voce

18.00

Unit I:

Unit I

• Statistical Testing: Parametric vs. Non parametric.
• Parametric Tests- t-test: One Sample, Independent Sample, Paired t test.

18.00

Unit II:

Unit II

Analysis of variance
• Assumptions of One Way ANOVA, Testing for differences in mean between the group, Measure of Association, Assumption of Two way ANOVA, Procedure for Testing Two Way ANOVA.

18.00

Unit III:

Unit III

• Non Parametric Tests: Mann Whitney U test, Wilcoxon Signed ranks test, Kruskal Wallis Test, Friedman Test.
• Chi square Test: Test of Independence, 2x2 Cross tabulation, Layered cross tab, Goodness of fit

18.00

Unit IV:

Unit IV

• Regression: Assumptions, Linear Regression, Multiple Regression

18.00

Unit V:

Unit V

• Advanced Analysis: Factor Analysis, Principal Component Method, Confirmatory Factor Analysis.

Essential Readings:

ESSENTIAL READINGS
• Andy Field, Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics,Sage Publications
• Kiran Pandya, Smruti Bulsari, Sanjay Sinha, SPSS in Simple Steps, Dreamtech Press
• A. Rajathi & P. Chandran (2012), SPSS for You, MJP publishers.
• Lawrence M Mayers, Glenn C Gamst, A J Guarind, Performing Data Analysis Using SPSS, Wiley

References:

SUGGESTED READINGS

· S. Ajai Gaur (2009), Statistical methods for practice & research: A guide to Data Analysis using SPSS, Sage Publishers.

· Seyed Reza Hashemian Rahaghi, Farnaz Abed Ashtiani, Basic of Statistics & SPSS, create space independent publishing platform.

· Keith Mc Cormick, Jesus Salcedo, Jon Peck, Andrew Wheeler, SPSS Statistics for Data Analysis and Visualization, Wiley

· James B Cunningham (2011), Using SPSS: An interactive hands- on Approach, Peacock publisher, 3^rd Edition.

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· https://www.scopus.com/home.uri

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