DE FRANCISCO BBA 303 SYLLABUS
BBA 303: Business Statistics
FALL 2022 ONLINE
Eva de Francisco, PhD
email: eva.defrancisco@lehman.cuny.edu
My office hours this semester are by phone or email.
Remember my email has a dot between my name and last name.
If you just reply to my emails from BB, I won’t get your email!
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course introduces students to “graphical methods and exploratory business data analysis; the
normal distribution and sampling distribution of the mean estimation for means and proportions;
and introduction to hypothesis testing for one and two groups.” (Lehman Undergraduate Bulletin)
COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. Define, compute and analyze measures of central tendency, variation, data dispersion and
positions (M)
2. Illustrate concepts and relationships using tables (such as frequency, relative frequency), and
charts (including bar, line and pie charts) (M)
3. Differentiate and utilize the basic probability concepts (D)
4. Calculate joint probabilities using multiplication and addition rules (I)
5. Identify and provide examples of discrete and continuous probability distributions. Calculate
and interpret standard scores (Z value) and t-statistics (I)
6. Calculate and interpret standard scores (Z value) and t-statistics (I)
7. Utilize sampling distribution and the Central Limit Theorem to make appropriate inferences
about the population (I) and find the probability of a normally distributed variable using
standard normal and student t-distribution tables (I)
MANDATORY TEXTBOOK AND MATERIALS
This is an asynchronous course, and I won’t be meeting with you regularly so you will be working
on the material on your own, and a big part of being successful in this course means being
disciplined and independent.
We will use the platform www.tophat.com where we will cover 7 chapters.
To join and buy access to our course materials, go to TopHat put the name of our school,
Lehman College, your school email and use Join Code: 633165
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I have made reading our chapters reading assignments. As you read chapters, you will find
questions in the text that you have to answer. Some questions give you points for just answering
or participating, and some give you points only if you answer them correctly.
For every chapter you will have two assignments, the questions you will find reading the
chapter are assigned, as well as another End of the Chapter assignment. They are both
very long so I recommend start working on them 2 weeks in advance before their due date,
which is when they become available at TopHat!
The average number of questions of the reading assignments is 40, and the same applies for the
end of the chapter questions, so I strongly suggest you don’t leave assignments for the day they
are due, or you will likely do a poor job and get a bad grade rushing to finish them.
Put the following due dates of the assignments in your schedule and get multiple warnings, 2
weeks to due date, 3 days to due date, whatever works for your schedule and rhythm!
SCHEDULE:
Chapter 1: Reading and End of Chapter Assignments due September 8th
Chapter 2: Reading and End of Chapter Assignments due September 22nd
Chapter 3: Reading and End of Chapter Assignments due October 6th
Chapter 4: Reading and End of Chapter Assignments due October 20th
Chapter 5: Reading and End of Chapter Assignments due November 3rd
Chapter 6: Reading and End of Chapter Assignments due November 17th
Chapter 7: Reading and End of Chapter Assignments due December 8th
My intention is not to give an optional final exam during the Exam week at Lehman.
I will prepare an exam covering chapters 2 to 7 so all of you can have an opportunity to review
the material and show me some improvement over your assignments’ grades if you want to.
GRADING SYSTEM
The course grade will be based on the average of you scores in your reading and end of chapter
assignments and the final exam if you do it.
Letter grade for the course is based approximately on the following percentages:
0-59:
F
60-69:
D
70-79:
90-100:
C
A-, A
80-89:
B
Homework: Homework will be assigned throughout each chapter. ALL HOMEWORK
ASSIGNMENT WILL BE DONE USING THE TOPHAT COURSE WEBPAGE.
Late homework will be penalized. If you have an emergency, try to notify me ahead of the
assignment due date.
NO EXTRA CREDIT assignment(s) will be given to individual students make up for poor
performance or failing grades.
IMPORTANT TIPS
I would suggest that you write down all your ASSIGNEMNT DUE DATES below (DOUBLE
CHECK THE DATES IN TOPHAT) in your phone or computer calendar with reminders so you
can be prepared and meet all deadlines to get the maximum points available and be on top of your
work.
It is highly recommended that you use EXCEL as much as you can to do the assignments
since this will save you time and will help you to avoid silly mistakes. The book and the slides
have tabulated tables to find and calculate probabilities and other concepts, but I would also
try to see how to answer by learning how to use +Functions in EXCEL. Knowing EXCEL
will help you find a job after you leave LEHMAN!!
ACCOMODATING DISABILITIES
PLEASE CONTACT ME IF I CAN HELP YOU WITH THE SETTINGS OF THE CLASS IN
CASE YOU HAVE A PHYSICAL OR LEARNING DISSABILITY. I WILL BE HAPPY TO
HELP YOU SHOW ME THE BEST OF YOU.
Lehman College is committed to providing access to all programs and curricula to all
students. Students with disabilities who may need classroom accommodations are encouraged to
register with the Office of Student Disability Services. For more information, please contact the
Office of Disability Services, Shuster room 238, phone: 718-960-8441.
THE ACADEMIC CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE (ACE) AND THE SCIENCE
LEARNING CENTER (SLC):
Lehman College has two tutoring centers on campus. The ACE provides appointment based and
drop-in tutoring in the humanities, social sciences, and writing, as well as general writing skills
and test preparation workshops for the CPE. The SCL provides drop-in tutoring for natural and
computer science courses. To obtain more information about the ACE and the SLC, please visit
their websites at http://www.lehman.edu/issp, or please call the ACE at 718-960-8175, and the
SLC at 718-960-7707. Please note that for statistics tutoring, you will need to visit ACE.
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PLAGIARISM: This refers to copying someone’s work or using another person’s thoughts or
ideas as one’s own original work. If caught with this, you will earn a failing grade in this class
plus you will be reported to the Office of the Dean of Students. To review Lehman’s policy, please
visit http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/student-affairs/documents/student-handbook-02.pdf