Introductory Quantitative Skills

Course aim

This course provides a foundation training in quantitative skills, which is essential for analysing statistical data and drawing inferences appropriately. Applied understanding of the course contents increases student's mastery of the inferential nature of reasoning, critical thinking and problem solving, which is extremely useful for careers in business, economics, finance, health sciences, information technology, engineering, sociology and other areas of social sciences.

Course content

This course introduces students to the basic concepts and application of the following topics: the definition, scope and importance of statistics; graphical descriptive techniques; numerical descriptive techniques; data collection and sampling; normal distribution; introduction to hypothesis testing; chi-squared test; correlation and simple regression analysis.

Textbook(s)

Keller, G. 2018, Statistics for Management and Economics, Abbreviated, 11th 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

Group presentation, 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.