Quantitative Methods,
Semester 1, 2006 - 2007
Day Time Location
Tuesday 3pm – 4pm QG13
Thursday 1pm – 2pm XG21
Friday 12pm – 1pm QG13
Week 1 Introduction and Basic Concepts of Probability
Week 2 Axioms and Properties of Probability; Conditional Probability; Monty Hall Problem
Week 3 Bayes Theorem and Random Variables, Binomial Distribution
Week 4 Geometric distribution; Hypergeometric distribution
Week 5 Bivariate Distributions, Expectations
Week 6 Expected Monetary Value
Week 8 Poisson distribution
Week 9 Normal distribution
Week 10 Sampling distributions
Week 11 Estimation; Sampling Methods; Statistical Sampling in Auditing
Week 12 Revision
2006 Repeat Exam Paper and answers
Sampling Accounting Populations
Exercises
Probability questions and solutions
Additional Tutorial 1 questions and solutions
Event exercises and notes and answers
Distribution exercises and solutions
Descriptive
exercises and solutions
Weeks
3 – 6 and 9 – 12
Group 1 Surnames beginning with A – F Friday 10am – 11am Weeks 3, 5, 9, 11 Room: L240
Group 2 Surnames beginning with G – L Friday 11am – 12pm Weeks 3, 5, 9, 11 Room: L240
Group 3 Surnames beginning with M – N Friday 10am – 11am Weeks 4, 6, 10, 12 Room: L240
Group 4 Surnames beginning with O – Z Friday 11am – 12pm Weeks 4, 6, 10, 12 Room: L240