Information and Decision Sciences

IDS 270 Business Statistics I

Credit hours 4
Catalog description Survey of concepts and techniques for business applications of statistics. Use of computer software for tabulation and analysis of data.
Key topics
  • Introduction to Statistics
  • Descriptive Statistics
  • Graphical Methods
  • Discrete Random Variables
  • Continous Random Variables
  • Sampling Distributions
  • Inference Based on a Single Sample: Estimation
  • Inference Based on a Single Sample: Hypothesis Testing
  • Inference Based on Two Samples
  • Simple Linear Regression
  • Multiple Regression
  • Methods for Quality Improvement
  • Time Series: Models and Forecasting
Prerequisites for this course Math 160 or Math 165
Course(s) for which this is a prerequisite IDS 355, IDS 371, IDS 482
Required course for Core course for CBA students and IDS Majors
Elective course for None
Frequency of offering Fall, Spring and Summer
Recent offerings, instructors, syllabi Fall 2008: Ding, Gong, Khagleeva, Prasarnsith, Su, Sun
Spring 2008: Ding , Guo , Jha , Su
Spring 2007: Cui , Gad , Guo , Jha , Sparks
Planned offerings Offered every term
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