UNIVERSITY OF HARGEISA

FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND BUPLIC ADMINISTRATION

Course Title: Business Statistics-1

1.0 COURSE DATA

College: Business Administration
Faculty: Business and Public Administration
Course Title: Business Statistics-1
Mode: Full Time
Course Code: STAT 1
Credit Value: 3 Credit Hours
Contact Hours 3
Contact hours: 48 hours - delivered in weekly sessions
(includes 4-hour examination)
Semester: 1
Prerequisite None
Time:
Course Instructor: Mustafa Hassan

E-mail: mustafahassan286@gmail.com

2.0 Course description, objectives, and contents

Course At the outset, research involves collection of data and the process of
Description understanding the data and creating some meaning out of it which requires
statistical techniques. Therefore, the major aim of this course is to help
Students develop an intuition and interest for participation in collection of
information on random phenomena and analysis of the same to deduce
meaning. It will enable students to appreciate, critically evaluate and apply
contemporary research techniques that use basic statistical methods. They
will learn about how to apply statistical techniques and tools in a research
process and consequently acquire competencies for organizing, analyzing
and presenting the findings of quantitative and qualitative data.

Towards this end the course is designed to equip students with a working
knowledge of probability, statistics, and decision making ability in the
presence of uncertainties. It will also introduce them to both theoretical
issues and applications that will be useful in social and academic research
and real life experience. Specifically, this course aims at providing with a
basic understanding of probability, descriptive statistics (summarizing
data), and inferential statistics (making valid generalizations from sample
data) and sampling techniques that are important for research.
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Objectives At the end of the course, the students will be able to:

 Analyze data sets critically and apply the tools of statistics to

improve decision making
 Perform statistical computations on data: generate tabular and
graphic display and compute descriptive statistics, estimate
population parameters and perform hypothesis testing
 Explain the technical details and exact interpretation of a statistical
analysis results
 Distinguish between techniques of sampling and decide on the
sample size and sampling techniques that are appropriate for each
study
 Communicate the results of statistical work
 Write up the results of statistical analysis in a report aimed at
improving decision making
Course
Evaluation  Assignments and Quizzes: 20%

 Midterms: 20%

 Final Exam: 60%

Chapters Chapter content weeks

1 BASIC CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS IN STATISTICS 4
1.1. What is statistics?
1.2. Types of Statistics
1.3. Reasons to Study Statistics
1.4. Types of Data
1.5. Population verse Sample
1.6. Parameter verse Statistic
1.7. Sources of Data
1.8. Sampling Techniques
1.9. Data Measurement Levels
1.10. Basic steps for Statistics work
1.11. Review Exercise
2 GRAPHICAL TECHNIQUES FOR ORGANIZING DATA 3

2.1. Graphical Descriptive Techniques

2.2. Graphical Techniques for Quantitative Data
2.2.1. Organizing Data into Frequency Distribution Table
2.2.2. Construct Relative Frequency and Commutative
Relative Frequency
2.2.3. Construct on Histogram
2.2.4. Construct on Frequency Polygon
2.2.5. Construct an Ogive- the graph of commutative
relative frequency Distribution
2.2.6. Construct Stem and Leaf Display
2.3. Graphical Techniques for Qualitative Data
2.3.1. Construct on Pie Chart
2.3.2. Construct on Bar Chart
2.3.3. Construct on Line Chart
2.4. Graphical Excellence

3 MEASUER OF CENTRAL TENDENCY 3

3.1. Arithmetic Mean
3.2. The Median
3.3. The Mode
3.4. Mean of Grouped Data
3.5. Median of Grouped Data
3.6. Mode of Grouped Data
3.7. Weighted Means
3.8. Geometric Mean
3.9. Relationship among mean, Median and Mode
4 MEASURE OF VARIABILITY 3
4.1. The Range
4.2. The Variance
4.3. The Standard Deviation
4.4. Variance of Grouped Data
4.5. Interpreting Standard Deviation
4.5.1. Empirical Rule
4.5.2. Chebyshev Theorem
5 MEASURE OF POSITION, SKEWNESS AND KURTOSIS 3

5.1. Percentiles
5.2. Quartiles and Inter-quartile Range
5.3. Box-and Whisker plot and identifying outliers
5.4. Skewness
5.5. Kurtosis
6 MEASURE OF ASSOCIATION
6.1. Scatter plot
6.2. The Coefficient of Correlation
6.3. Scatter Plot
7 INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY
7.1. Assigning probability to events
7.2. Probability Rules
7.3. Conditional Probability
7.4. Random variable and Discrete probability distribution
7.5. Binomial Distribution
Reference/text books:
1. Keller G. Statistics for Management and Economics, Sixth
Edition.
2. Prem. S Mann, Christopher Jay Lacke.Introductory Statistics,
7th edition
3. De Veaux, Velleman and Bock. Intro Stats,4th edition,
published by Pearson
4. Ary, D. and Jacobs, L.C. Introduction to Statistics Purposes
and Procedures. New York, Chicago…Toronto, Sydney. Hld
Rinehart and Winston.
5. Denga, I.d. and Ali, A. An Introduction to Research Methods
and Statistics in Education and Social Sciences. Jos. Savannah
Publishers Ltd.