CMG349 Statistics for Management Syllabus:

CMG349 Statistics for Management Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021

COURSE OBJECTIVE:

 To learn the applications of statistics in business decision making.

UNIT I INTRODUCTION

Basic definitions and rules for probability, Baye‘s theorem and random variables, Probability distributions: Binomial, Poisson, Uniform and Normal distributions.

UNIT II SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION AND ESTIMATION

Introduction to sampling distributions, Central limit theorem and applications, sampling techniques, Point and Interval estimates of population parameters.

UNIT III TESTING OF HYPOTHESIS – PARAMETIRC TESTS

Hypothesis testing: one sample and two sample tests for means of large samples (z-test), one sample and two sample tests for means of small samples (t-test), ANOVA one way.

UNIT IV NON-PARAMETRIC TESTS

Chi-square tests for independence of attributes and goodness of fit, Kolmogorov-Smirnov – test for goodness of fit, Mann – Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis test.

UNIT V CORRELATION AND REGRESSION

Correlation –Rank Correlation – Regression – Estimation of Regression line – Method of Least Squares – Standard Error of estimate.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO1 To facilitate objective solutions in business decision making.
CO2 understand and solve business problems
CO3 To apply statistical techniques to data sets, and correctly interpret the results.
CO4 To develop skill-set that is in demand in both the research and business environments
CO5 To enable the students to apply the statistical techniques in a work setting.

REFERENCES:

1. Richard I. Levin, David S. Rubin, Masood H.Siddiqui, Sanjay Rastogi, Statistics for Management, Pearson Education, 8th Edition, 2017.
2. Prem. S. Mann, Introductory Statistics, Wiley Publications, 9th Edition, 2015.
3. T N Srivastava and Shailaja Rego, Statistics for Management, Tata McGraw Hill, 3rd Edition 2017.
4. Ken Black, Applied Business Statistics, 7th Edition, Wiley India Edition, 2012.
5. David R. Anderson, Dennis J. Sweeney, Thomas A.Williams, Jeffrey D.Camm, James J.Cochran,
Statistics for business and economics, 13th edition, Thomson (South – Western) Asia, Singapore, 2016.
6. N. D. Vohra, Business Statistics, Tata McGraw Hill, 2017.