Introductory Quantitative Skills

Course aim

This course provides a foundation training in quantitative skills, which is essential for foundation level students for analysing statistical data and drawing inferences from that analysis. Applied understanding of the course components increases student's mastery of the inferential nature of reasoning, critical thinking and problem solving, which are useful for a career in business, economics, finance, trade and in any other disciplines of social science. Successful accomplishment of the course will enable students to self-confidently choose their pathways into a suitable undergraduate program.

Course content

The Role, Collection and Presentation of Quantitative Data in the Business Decision Making Process; Examining Data Characteristics: Descriptive Statistics and Data Screening; Estimation and Hypothesis Testing; Testing for Differences: One sample, Independent and Paired Samples t-tests and ANOVA; Testing for Associations: Chi Square, Correlation and Simple Regression Analysis; and Multiple Regression Analysis.

Textbook(s)

Keller, G. 2016, Statistics for Management and Economics, Abbreviated, 10th Edition, Cengage Learning, Australia

Prerequisite(s)

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Major Assessment, Participation, Problem solving exercise

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 2)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.