B.A. (Hons.

) Business Economics Course Committee Meeting for Paper 1248302

Reading List for Statistics for Business Economics 2021

Meeting was held on 15 August 2021.

The following were present:

Vijeta Pundir, Maharaja Agrasen College
Karman Kaur, Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College
Priyambada Gupta, Sri Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College
Rakesh Kumar, College of Vocational Studies
Ritika Garg, Shivaji College
Ravi Kumar Alaria, Lakshmibai College
Gunjit Kaur, Gargi College
Harish Dhawan, Aryabhatta College

Sole Reading: Jay L. Devore: Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences

Teachers may use the methods of bootstrap and simulation experiments to explain the concepts but
these methods do not form part of the student syllabus.

Chapters and exceptions Allotted Marks

Chapter 1: (except Stem and Leaf diagrams and Comparative Boxplots)

(introduce quartile measure of dispersion, measures of skewness and kurtosis) [5]

Chapter 2: (no problems specifically on counting techniques) [10]

Chapter 3: (except 3.5) [10]

Chapter 4: (except 4.4, 4.5, 4.6) [10]

Chapter 5: (except 5.5, only the concept of covariance and correlation) [5] + [5]

Chapter 6: (except 6.2) [5]

Chapter 7: (except 7.4, population proportion, tolerance intervals, prediction intervals) [10]

Chapter 8: (except 8.3, beta and sample size determination, 8.5) [10]

Chapter 9: (except 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, beta and sample size determination) [5]

The allotted marks are guiding rules for the paper-setter(s). These are not binding and would also
alter as per the choice of questions attempted by the examinee.

Harish Dhawan
Aryabhatta College