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Ngee Ann Polytechnic
School of Business & Accountancy
Business Statistics and Application
Academic Year 2020/21 (April 2020 semester)
Synopsis of Module
This module introduces to students the basic concepts of statistics and focuses on basic
statistical tools and models for decision-making in the business world. They will also be taught
how to organise and analyse data, and interpret the results. Students will also apply their
knowledge of MS EXCEL to organise, present and compute data to aid in its analysis and
interpretation.
Teaching Schedule
Week
Week
Beginning
Tutorial
Workshop
Remarks
1
20 Apr 2020
Introduction to Statistics
Introduction to Excel
Synchronous
Online Lesson
2
27 Apr 2020
Summarising Data
3
04 May 2020
Measures of Central
Tendency & Dispersion
(I)
11 May 2020
Measures of Central
Tendency & Dispersion
(II)
4
Chart Plotting in
Excel
Data Analysis
Toolpak
Mathematical
Functions
Logical Functions
Conditional Functions
Look Up
Data Validation
What-If-Analysis
PivotTable
Formula Auditing
Synchronous
Online Lesson
Synchronous
Online Lesson
Project Interim
Report
Submission
(5% Group)
5
18 May 2020
6
25 May 2020
Probability Theory
Revision for Mid
Term Quiz
Synchronous
Online Lesson
7
01 Jun 2020
Quiz (15%)
Quiz (15%)
MEL Quiz
8
08 Jun 2020
Discrete Probability
Distribution
PBL
Synchronous
Online Lesson
9
10
15 Jun 2020
22 Jun 2020
11
29 Jun 2020
April 2020 Semester
Project e-consultation
Synchronous
Online Lesson
Break
Break
Continuous Probability
Distribution
PBL
Synchronous
Online Lesson
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Week
Week
Beginning
Tutorial
Workshop
12
06 Jul 2020
Sampling Distribution
PBL
13
13 Jul 2020
Regression Analysis
Correlation Analysis
Project e-consultation
14
20 Jul 2020
Remarks
Synchronous
Online Lesson
Synchronous
Online Lesson
Special Break Week
Project
Spreadsheet
Submission
(20% Group)
15
27 Jul 2020
16
03 Aug 2020
17
18
19
20
10 Aug 2020
17 Aug 2020
24 Aug 2020
31 Aug 2020
White Space
Presentation as a group
Revision
(10% Individual)
No class
No class
Study Week & End of Semester Common Test
End of Semester Common Test
Assessments
Tutorial Participation
Project
Quiz
End of Semester Common Test
Total
Individual
Reflection
Submission
(10% Individual)
Online
presentation
15%
45%
15%
25%
100%
Recommended Textbook
Customised Text adapted from Business Statistics and Analytics in Practice by
Bowerman, Drougas, Duckworth, Froelich, Hummel, Moninger and Schur, Ninth
Edition
Customised Text adapted from Microsoft Excel 365 Complete: In Practice, 2019
edition by Nordell, Stewart, 2020
Anti-Plagiarism
Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP) develops in students good academic practices to
uphold academic integrity and respect for the works of others. These practices
are guided by the NP Plagiarism policy which mandates that students assume full
responsibility for the content and integrity of the academic work they submit. A
student’s submitted work, presentations, tests, examinations, reports, and
projects must be that of his/her work. Students shall be guilty of violation if they:
a) Represent the work of others as their own
April 2020 Semester
25%
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b) Use or obtain unauthorised assistance in any academic work
c) Give unauthorised assistance to other students
d) Misrepresent the content of submitted work
Students who commit the plagiarism offence is subject to the disciplinary
procedures outlined in the Ngee Ann Plagiarism Policy. For more information,
please visit https://www1.np.edu.sg/clte/antiplagiarism/policy.htm.
April 2020 Semester