Business Adm and Social Science

IEK315 7.5 ECTS credits

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LANGUAGE: Swedish

EXAMINER
Robert Lundqvist Univ adj

PREREQUISITES
Mathematics, basic course

COURSE AIM
At the end of the course the student should be able ¥ to demonstrate that she or he has acquired statistical thinking; ¥ to demonstrate understanding for variation and for the importance of taking variation into consideration when doing statistical reasoning; ¥ to apply the different elements of a statistical survey; ¥ to apply some statistical methods for collecting and analysing data; ¥ to use statistical software when analysing data; ¥ to search in the national and international official production of statistics; ¥ to present, both orally and in writing, statistical results and analyses.

CONTENTS
The course deals with the design of sample surveys and questionnaires, as well as exploring and summarizing data (including EDA). Basic concepts in probability and statistics like the concept of random variables, measures of location and dispersion, distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing are dealt with. Furthermore simple regression analysis is treated.

TEACHING


EXAMINATION
Written exam 6.0 credits Laboratory work 1.5 credits
COURSE GRADE SCALE:

ITEMS AND CREDITS
Written exam                                                	4.5 ECTS
Group and individual projects                               	3.0 ECTS


COURSE LITERATURE
Blomqvist L, Klefsjö B & Söderström U (1986). Grundläggande matematik för ekonomstudier, Högskolan i Växjö, ca 150 sidor. Mann, P S (1995) Statistics for business and economics, Wiley, ca 880 sidor. Kompletterande material från Avdelningen för kvalitetsteknik och statistik. Reference literature Andersson, G (1982). Lögn och sanning med statistik, Liber förlag, Malmö, 200 sidor. Berg, S, Ek, L & Körner, S (1978). Deskriptiv statistik, Studentlitteratur, Lund, 180 sidor. Dahmström, K (1996). Från datainsamling till rapport - att göra en statistisk undersökning, Studentlitteratur, Lund, ca 200 sidor. Klefsjö, B & Hellmer, S (1989). Räkna med slumpen - textbok, Studentlitteratur, Lund, 2:a upplagan, 272 sidor. Klefsjö, B & Hellmer, S (1989). Räkna med slumpen - problemsamling, Studentlitteratur, Lund, 1989, 2:a upplagan, 200 sidor. Körner, S (1996). Praktisk statistik, Studentlitteratur, Lund, 250 sidor. Wallgren, B & Wallgren, A (1983). Undersökningar och statistik, Natur och Kultur, Stockholm. 200 sidor. Wallgren A & B. m fl (1994). Statistikens bilder Ñ att skapa diagram, Statistiska centralbyrån, Stockholm, 94 sidor. Wärneryd, B mfl (1990). Att fråga. Om frågekonstruktion vid intervjuundersökningar och postenkäter, Statistiska centralbyrån, Stockholm, 280 sidor.

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