CA234 – Topics covered

 

 

·        Probability and Sample spaces;

·        probability laws; addition rule, multiplication rule

·        conditional probability, Bayes’ theorem;

·        random variables;

·        distribution and density functions;

·        expected value and variance.

·        Basic Discrete Probability Distributions Binomial, Poisson, Geometric, Hypergeometric.

·        Basic Continuous Probability Distributions, Normal and Exponential.

·        The central limit theorem.

·        The Sampling distribution of the mean;

·        Point and interval estimation;

·        Sample size and precision of estimates.

·         Small samples and the t-distribution

 

Books

 

Berenson, M.L. and Levine, D.M., Basic Business Statistics, Prentice-Hall White,

J, Yeats, A and Skipworth, G., Tables for Staticticians Blaylock, H.M Social Statistics McGraw Hill

Freund, J.E. and Williams, F.J.,  Modern Business Statistics, Pitman

 

(Virtually any book on basic business statistics will cover the topics described above.)

 

 

see also the university's page for CA234