BUS 201: Business Statistics

Course Description

This course will focus on introducing students to the concepts, methods, and statistical tools used in making business decisions. The goal of this course is to present opportunities for students to learn how to perform various business analyses for interpreting data and providing writing results to support business planning and decision making. (3 credits)

Recommended Prerequisite

  • MAT 100: Elementary Algebra

Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)

Upon completion of the course, the students will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate basic computations for the various statistical concepts and methods use to analyze data in the business world.
  2. Use and apply descriptive statistical measures to business situations.
  3. Apply statistical concepts and/or methods to identify outcomes for business planning and/or problem solving.
  4. Apply basic probability concepts to business situations.
  5. Demonstrate basic competencies using statistical tools to analyze data and to evaluate results.
  6. Discuss the part data analysis plays in business decision making processes.
  7. Apply probability distributions to model different types of business processes.
  8. Recognize and apply statistical inference techniques (including statistical estimation and hypothesis testing) in business situations.

General Education Outcomes (GEOs)

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Course Activities and Grading

Assignments

Weight

Discussions (Weeks 1-7)

20%

Quizzes (Weeks 1-7)

20%

Weekly Projects (Weeks 1-7)

25%

Final Exam (Week 8)

35%

Total

100%

Required Textbooks

Available through Charter Oak State College's online bookstore

  • Levine, David (2020). Business Statistics: A First Course - with Access Code. 8th ed. Pearson. ISBN-13: 9780135860205
  • Notes: This is a print copy of the text with printed Access code.  It must be purchased “New Only” from the College bookstore to access assignments.

Course Schedule

Week

SLOs

Readings and Exercises

Assignments

1

1

Topic: Organizing and Visualizing Data

  • Readings:
    • Chapter 1
    • Chapter 2
  • Read assigned chapters
  • Review the lecture material
  • Participate in the Discussions
  • Complete Quiz
  • Submit Weekly Project
  • Complete practice problems in MyStat Lab (not graded)

2

2

Topic: Numerical Descriptive Measures

  • Readings:
    • Chapter 3
  • Read assigned chapter
  • Review the lecture material
  • Participate in the Discussions
  • Complete Quiz
  • Submit Weekly Project
  • Complete practice problems in MyStat Lab (not graded)

3

3

Topic: Basic Probability

  • Readings:
    • Chapter 4
  • Read assigned chapter
  • Review the lecture material
  • Participate in the Discussions
  • Complete Quiz
  • Submit Weekly Project
  • Complete practice problems in MyStat Lab (not graded)

4

5,7

Topic: Discrete Probabilities and Normal Distrubution

  • Readings:
    • Chapter 5
    • Chapter 6
  • Read assigned chapters
  • Review the lecture material
  • Participate in the Discussions
  • Complete Quiz
  • Submit Weekly Project
  • Complete practice problems in MyStat Lab (not graded)

5

6

Topic: Sampling and Sampling Distrubutions

  • Readings:
    • Chapter 7
  • Read assigned chapter
  • Review the lecture material
  • Participate in the Discussions
  • Complete Quiz
  • Submit Weekly Project
  • Complete practice problems in MyStat Lab (not graded)

6

3,6

Topic: Confidence Interval Estimation

  • Readings:
    • Chapter 8
  • Read assigned chapter
  • Review the lecture material
  • Participate in the Discussions
  • Complete Quiz
  • Submit Weekly Project
  • Complete practice problems in MyStat Lab (not graded)

7

3,6

Topic: Hypothesis Testing

  • Readings:
    • Chapter 9
  • Read assigned chapter
  • Review the lecture material
  • Participate in the Discussions
  • Complete Quiz
  • Submit Weekly Project
  • Complete practice problems in MyStat Lab (not graded)

8

1-8

Topic: Final Exam

  • Readings:
    • Review Chapters 1-9
  • Review previous chapters for Final Exam
  • Participate in the Discussions
  • Complete Final Exam
  • Complete Course Evaluation

Final Exam
Exams covers Chapters 1-9

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