course study
IBS Hyderabad
Academic Year – 2014-15
Course Handout
Course Name: Quantitative Methods Semester: I
Faculty Name: Vishal Mishra
Room No: 213 Wing: E
Consultation Hours: Tuesday 12:20 p.m.-1:35 p.m. (Section D) and Friday 9:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m. (Section J)
Mobile No: 9948494348 Email: vmishra@ibsindia.org
Course Objective: A Manager is called for to take decisions in organizations. Hence, analytical ability and analytical thinking is important for managerial decision making. This course aims at equipping you with analytical concepts, tools and techniques which will enhance your capabilities for objective decision making. The course will also build your foundations for receiving courses like Managerial Economics, Operations Management, Business Research Methods, Marketing Research, Portfolio Management, Financial Econometrics etc. during the MBA program at IBS.
Learning Outcomes: At the end of the course a student is expected to be equipped with statistical thinking ability and application of basic statistical tools in business context through this thinking.
Recommended Text Book:
TEXT BOOK
AUTHOR / PUBLICATION
Statistics for Business and Economics
David R Anderson, Dennis J Sweeny and Thomas A Williams, Cengage Learning, 11e, New Delhi, 2011
Suggested books:
BOOKS
AUTHOR / PUBLICATION
Business Statistics in Practice
Bruce L Brown, Richard T O’Connell and Emily S Murphree, Tata McGraw-Hill Edition, 2010
Decision Making using Microsoft Excel
S Christian Albright, Wayne L Winston and Christopher J Zappe, Cengage Learning, 2009
Statistics for Managers using Microsoft Excel
David M. Levine, David Stephan, Timothy C. Krehbiel, Mark L. Berenson, Fifth Edition, PHI Learning, 2009
Statistics for Management
Richard L. Levin & David S. Rubin, Pearson, 2010
Course Outline:
Sl. No.
Session No. Topic
Case & Case No.
Chapter Reading
1.
1-3
Scales & Measurements, Tabular & Graphical presentation of Data, Central
Academic Year – 2014-15
Course Handout
Course Name: Quantitative Methods Semester: I
Faculty Name: Vishal Mishra
Room No: 213 Wing: E
Consultation Hours: Tuesday 12:20 p.m.-1:35 p.m. (Section D) and Friday 9:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m. (Section J)
Mobile No: 9948494348 Email: vmishra@ibsindia.org
Course Objective: A Manager is called for to take decisions in organizations. Hence, analytical ability and analytical thinking is important for managerial decision making. This course aims at equipping you with analytical concepts, tools and techniques which will enhance your capabilities for objective decision making. The course will also build your foundations for receiving courses like Managerial Economics, Operations Management, Business Research Methods, Marketing Research, Portfolio Management, Financial Econometrics etc. during the MBA program at IBS.
Learning Outcomes: At the end of the course a student is expected to be equipped with statistical thinking ability and application of basic statistical tools in business context through this thinking.
Recommended Text Book:
TEXT BOOK
AUTHOR / PUBLICATION
Statistics for Business and Economics
David R Anderson, Dennis J Sweeny and Thomas A Williams, Cengage Learning, 11e, New Delhi, 2011
Suggested books:
BOOKS
AUTHOR / PUBLICATION
Business Statistics in Practice
Bruce L Brown, Richard T O’Connell and Emily S Murphree, Tata McGraw-Hill Edition, 2010
Decision Making using Microsoft Excel
S Christian Albright, Wayne L Winston and Christopher J Zappe, Cengage Learning, 2009
Statistics for Managers using Microsoft Excel
David M. Levine, David Stephan, Timothy C. Krehbiel, Mark L. Berenson, Fifth Edition, PHI Learning, 2009
Statistics for Management
Richard L. Levin & David S. Rubin, Pearson, 2010
Course Outline:
Sl. No.
Session No. Topic
Case & Case No.
Chapter Reading
1.
1-3
Scales & Measurements, Tabular & Graphical presentation of Data, Central