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kW Feb 2022 to, bom, DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF JAMMU, M.COM. FIRST SEMESTER (NCBCS), BUSINESS STATISTICS, (Elective Course), F1, Max Marks: 100 Marks, Delete, Course: M.COM-E115, Credit: 4, External: 80 Marks, Time: 3.00 Hrs, Internal: 20 Marks, Backspace, (Syllabus for the examinations to be held in Dec 2019, 2020, 2021), Objective: To acquaint the students about the various concepts and techniques of business statistics, along with their application to the problems associated with the field of trade and business., UNIT –I DATA COLLECTION & SAMPLING METHODS, Concept and role of business statistics. Sources of data - Secondary sources, primary data collection, methods - Questionnaire, interview, observation; Types of scales Nominal, ordinal, interval and, ratio scales. Sampling - Concept and essentials; Non- probability sampling methods Convenience,, judgment, quota and snowball sampling; Probability sampling - Simple random, systematic,, stratified and cluster sampling; Sampling and non sampling errors; Basics of data feeding and, analysis software - SPSS., UNIT- II ASSOCIATION OF ATTRIBUTES, Concept of association of attributes; Consistency of data; Association and disassociation; Methods, of attributes - Comparison method, proportion method, Yule's coefficient of association, coefficient, of colligation, coefficient of contingency; Partial and multiple correlation and regression analysis., UNIT -III, Concept of probability, basic terms in probability, addition theorem, multiplication theorem;, Theoretical frequency distributions: Elementary knowledge of normal, binomial and poisson, distributions and their application to business problems; Analysis of variance: Concept,, assumptions, one way and two way classifications., UNIT-IV, Ent, PROBABILITY AND ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE, RELIABILITY, VALIDITY AND HYPOTHESIS TESTING, Reliability: Concept, types; Validity: Concept, types; Hypothesis: Concept and types of hypothesis -, Null and alternative hypothesis, Type I and type II errors, critical region, level of significance, p, value; Large sample tests for population mean and population proportion; Parametric tests F- test,, Z- test, t- test; Non-parametric tests- Chi square, Mann Whitney and Kruskal Wallis test., BOOKS RECOMMENDED, 1. Statistics for Management - Levin, Richard and David S Rubin, Prentice Hall, Delhi., 2. Business Statistics - Levin and Brevson, Pearson Education, New Delhi., 3. Statistics for Business and Economics - Anderson, Sweeney and Williams, Thompson, New, Delhi., 4. Statistics for Business and Economics - Hooda, R.P., Macmillan, New Delhi., 5. Statistics for Business & Economics - Heinz, Kohler, Harper Collins., 6. Quantitative approach to Managerial decisions - Hien, L.W, Prentice Hall, New Jesery. India,, Delhi., 7. Statistics for Business & Economics - Lawrence B. Morse, Harper Collins., 8. Statistics for Business and Economics Mc Clave, Benson and Sincich, Eleventh Edition,, Prentice Hall Publication., 01/02/2022 17:14
