Objectives and competences
1. Formulate problems.
2.Determine research design.
3.Determine data-collection method.
4. Design samples and collect data.
5. Analyse and interpret the data.
6. Prepare the research report.
7. Use statistical software (SPSS, Excel) by case-studies.
Content (Syllabus outline)
Formulation of economic business problems in terms of statistics;
Data collection methods – surveys and samples:
1. sampling and the quality of sampling data
2. survey design, sampling methods
3. analysis of sampling procedure: weighting, standard error of estimation, sample variance, sampling frame, non- responses;
4. number of sampling units
Identification/selection of the appropriate statistical techniques (estimation of parameters, hypothesis testing – two or more samples – independent and paired, related samples, ANOVA; association and dependencies among variables)
Research reporting
Learning and teaching methods
Lectures
Seminars
Readings
Groebner, David F., Dr.; Shannon, Patrick W., Dr.; Fry, Phillip C., Dr., Business statistics : a decision-making approach, 9th ed., Pearson new international ed. - Harlow : Pearson, cop. 2014