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Course Catalog 01/02


Business Adm and Social Science

IEK311 Basic Statistics AI 15.0 ECTS credits

TIMEPERIOD:
Q 1-2 and Q 3-4

LANGUAGE:

EXAMINER
Fredrik Johansson 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 account when doing statistical reasoning;
¥ to apply the different elements of a statistical survey;
¥ to apply some statistical methods for collecting and analysing data, especially from the fields of economics, business, and social sciences;
¥ 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). Different index numbers are studied and basic concepts in probability and statistics like the concept of random variables, measure of location and spread, distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing are dealt with. Furthermore simple regression analysis is treated.

TEACHING


EXAMINATION
written exam 7.5 credits
compulsory assignments 7.5 credits
COURSE GRADE SCALE: U, G

ITEMS/CREDITS
Compulsory assignments 7.50ECTS
Written exam 7.50ECTS

COURSE LITERATURE
Dahmström, Karin:(1996) Från datainsamling till rapport. Studentlitteratur , andra upplagan, ISBN 91-44-00111-8.
Moore, David S. (1999) The Basic Practice of Statistics, Freeman, ISBN 0-7167-3627-6.
Complementary material from the Division of Quality Technology and Statistics. (In Swedish.)

REMARKS


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Valid for the academic year 01/02.

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