BUS172: Introduction to Statistics [Spring 2013]

Instructor: Shahzada M Imran (Szm) Office: NAC857 Blog: http://szm-nsu.blogspot.com Email: imran@northsouth.edu CC: imran.edu@gmail.com Office Hours: ST: 8 am to 10:30 am MW: 8 am to 9:30 am or by appointment.

Course Description: This course introduces students to modern theory and methodology of statistics and their application in economics and business. Topics include descriptive statistics, probability theory, sampling theory and methodology, sampling distributions and hypothesis testing. Required Text: Introductory Statistics by Prem S. Mann, 7th Edition (International Student Version), Wiley India. Marks/Weight Distribution: Assignments (8) 10% Quizzes (3) 15%

Mid-term 1 Mid-term 2

20% 20%

Final Exam Class Attendance

25% 5%

Course Policies: Assignments, Quizzes, and Exams Quizzes may be given at any time during a class session. If you miss a quiz because you are late then you will miss the quiz forever. All quizzes and exams have to be taken. There would be no re-take of any exam. Tentative dates for the assignments (assigned dates), quizzes, and exams are given in the following class schedule. You would be responsible to collect your assignments from the resource drive/blog on time. Late assignments would be accepted with 20% penalty if submitted by the next class, 50% penalty if submitted later but within a week from the assigned date. No assignment would be accepted after a week. Missed quizzes and exams You will get a zero in a quiz if you miss it. There is absolutely no scope of make-up for missed quizzes under any circumstances. Make-up exams taken within one week of the regular exam will account for 85% marks instead of 100%. Similarly, make-up exams taken after one week of the regular exam will account for only 75% marks instead of 100%. However, a student may sit for a make-up exam just once. Make-up exams are usually more difficult than the regular exams, thus should be avoided. Class Schedule Lec. No 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Rev Date 23-Jan-13 28-Jan-13 30-Jan-13 04-Feb-13 06-Feb-13 11-Feb-13 13-Feb-13 18-Feb-13 20-Feb-13 25-Feb-13 27-Feb-13 04-Mar-13 06-Mar-13 11-Mar-13 13-Mar-13 18-Mar-13 20-Mar-13 25-Mar-13 27-Mar-13 01-Apr-13 03-Apr-13 08-Apr-13 10-Apr-13 15-Apr-13 TBA Day W M W M W M W M W M W M W M W M W M W M W M W M Lecture Topic Introduction to the Course and Warm-up Introduction (A#1) Organizing and Graphing Data (A#2) Numerical Descriptive Measures (A#3) Assigned Readings Chap 1 Chap 2 Chap 3

Probability Chap 4 (A#4) (Q#1) Review of Midterm-I Exam Materials Mid-Term 1 Chap 1 - 4 Discrete Random Variables and Their Chap 5 Probability Distributions (A#5) The Normal Distribution and Other Chap 6 Continuous Distributions (A#6) Sampling and Sampling Distributions Chap 7 (A#7) (Q#2) Review of Midterm-II Exam Materials Mid-Term 2 Chap 5 - 7 Estimation of the Mean and Proportion Chap 8 (A#8) Hypothesis Tests About the Mean and Chap 9 Proportion (A#9) (Q#3) Review of Final Exam Materials & Course Wrap-up Comprehensive Final Exam

If you are interested in getting 1% Extra Credit, please download and read the detailed version of the course outline. GOOD LUCK!