‫החוג למנהל עסקים‬
‫בית הספר לניהול‬
Department of Business
Graduate School of
Administration
Management
Haifa University – Graduate School of Management
Department of Business Administration
Quantitative Methods
Dr. Alex Segal
qm.emba@gmail.com
http://math.haifa.ac.il/asegal/QM
Office hours: by appointment only
The course is designed to introduce MBA students to key concepts and procedures in
descriptive and inferential statistics, and to develop their statistical reasoning skills.
Emphasis will be placed on understanding important concepts explained by examples
rather than by the rigorous mathematical reasoning.
Lecture notes will be provided on the web. The students are expected to bring these to
lectures.
The notes will appear on the website ahead of the lectures in order to give time to
download them.
By the end of the course students will be able to:
 Use appropriate numerical and graphical descriptive statistics
 Reason about center and variability properties of distributions
 Understand and use the standard normal distribution and standardized scores
 Appreciate the main sources of uncertainty in statistical inference from a sample
(estimates) to a population (parameters)
 Understand the logic of hypothesis testing and its applications
 Design and analyze basic linear statistical models
Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905 , Israel, Phone: 04-8249193 : '‫ טל‬50913 ‫ חיפה‬,‫הר הכרמל‬
Fax: 04- 8249194 :‫פקס‬
E-mail: mba@gsb.haifa.ac.il :‫דוא"ל‬
http://management.haifa.ac.il
‫החוג למנהל עסקים‬
‫בית הספר לניהול‬
Department of Business
Graduate School of
Administration
Management
Syllabus outline:
 Data distributions and their descriptions
 The normal distribution and Z scores
 Sampling and sampling distributions
 Point and interval estimation
 Hypothesis testing and types of inferential errors
 The linear model
Method of assessment:
 Final exam – 90%
 Participation in classwork assignments – 10%
Recommended reading:

Statistics for business, Derek L. Waller, 2008, Elsevier Inc.

Statistics for Business and Economics, Eleventh Edition, David R. Anderson, Dennis
J. Sweeney, Thomas A. Williams, 2011, South-Western, Cengage Learning.

Statistics for Economists, Len Gill, Chris D. Orme & Denise Osborn, 2003,
http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/economics/postgraduate
/psmaths/documents/NEWStatsText_000.pdf
Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905 , Israel, Phone: 04-8249193 : '‫ טל‬50913 ‫ חיפה‬,‫הר הכרמל‬
Fax: 04- 8249194 :‫פקס‬
E-mail: mba@gsb.haifa.ac.il :‫דוא"ל‬
http://management.haifa.ac.il