Ft MBA (BST510)

Study Skills
Including Business Statistics
2016-2017

Paul Bottomley
(bottomleypa@cf.ac.uk)
 MBA Business Statistics

Bob the Builder Charlie Eppes, Numb3rs

David Krumholtz

Charlie solves crimes, but were interested in making

managerial decisions but first we need a tool kit!
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 MBA Business Statistics
Objectives of the Module
Provide students with the ability to handle numerical
information in a business context.
Requires no prior statistical courses.
Choose between statistical methods.
Explore underlying theory and assumptions.
Undertake appropriate computations.
Interpret statistical results.
Interact with specialists in the area (market researchers)
Course Topics
Preliminary data analysis; descriptive stats; measures of
association and regression; basic probability, probability
distributions; inferential statistics - hypothesis tests.

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 MBA Business Statistics
Learning Process
Tutorials /
Seminars
(PB / John Doyle)
Formal Surgeries
Lectures (Wk2 if needed)
(Paul Bottomley) Refer to the (Paul Bottomley)
Course Text
(Business Statistics,
Mick Silver)

Lectures: (6 x 2) + (4 x 1) hours front loaded.

Seminars: (5 x 1) hours - beginning week 3.
Surgeries: clarify statistical problems (Abercon. L02, 16.30, Mon)
Q&A session. Not a repeat lecture; not an examples class.
My office is F03 (5th floor); Learning Central discussion group.
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 MBA Business Statistics

Purpose of Tutorials
The MBA has a wide range of abilities and expertise.
Tutorials run by myself and John Doyle. Will concentrate
on examples with mix of calculation and interpretation.

Module Information
January examination; pass mark = 50% overall.
Weighting: 60% Business Statistics, 40% Study Skills.
Formula sheets will be provided - not a memory test!

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 Course Textbooks

Mick Silver
1997 (2nd edition)
Business Statistics

Clare Morris
Quant. Approaches in
Business Studies (8th).
Anderson, Sweeney
& Williams.
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 Tutorial / Seminar Coordinator

John Doyle,
Professor of
Quantitative Methods
Room E22; 4th floor
Doylejr@cardiff.ac.uk

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 Scientific Calculator

Youll need a basic

scientific calculator.

Keys to look out for:

Factorials: x!
Combinations (nCr)
Exponential: exp, ex

In the examination,
workings must be shownno programmables!
No intermediate steps .. No (few) marks!!
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