Course Statistics I

This web page is created for the students in International Business Administration.


Mandatory book

D. Groebner, P. Shannon, P. Fry, K. Smith, ''Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach'', , 8th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2010

Course Content

Distinction between descriptive statistics and statistical inference procedures.
Data types and data measurement levels.
Frequency distribution.
Grouped data frequency distribution. Histograms.
Bar charts and pie charts. Line charts. Scatter diagrams.
Measure of center.
Measures of dispersion.
Detection of singular data.
Other measures.
Contingency tables.
Correlation coefficient.
Introduction to simple linear regression.
Statistical software

Lesson Reading Homework Complement
Lesson 1 1.1, 1.4 1.49;1.52;1.54;1.58 Interval vs Ordinal Data
Lesson 2 2.1 until p. 71 2.1, 2.5, 2.8, 2.10
Lesson 3 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 2.12, 2.27, 2.28, 2.47, 2.48, 2.73 Beware!
Lesson 4 3.1 until p. 122 3.1 (mean+median only), 3.2, 3.9 a+b, 3.11, 3.12
Lesson 5 3.1 from p.122, 3.2 3.26, 3.33, 3.34, 3.68, 3.78
Lesson 6 3.3 3.28, 3.50, 3.52, 3.81, Additional exercises
Lesson 7 Revision. Exercises Example of a report (in french)
Simpson's paradox
Lesson 8 Measure of concentration Exercices on the Gini Index
Lesson 9 Excel and statistics Room F219
Lesson 10 14.1 (without significance test), 14.2 p.613-623 14.4, 14.7a, 14.10ab, 14.22abd
Lesson 11 14.1 (without significance test), 14.2 p.613-623
Lesson 12 Blank test during this lesson
Lesson 13 16.1 16.9 abc, 16.14 (see the original figure, June 1, 2006)
Lesson 14 Exercises with R ... and its solution! In room F413: R software
R manuals (click Documentation)

Evaluation

Exam.
Authorised material: 3 pages of personal summary and 1 calculator