University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh
School of Business
BBA Program
Course Outline
Term: Spring, 2014
Course Code: BUS 202
Course Title: Business Statistics II
Section-04, Room-B303
Moin Uddin Ahmed
Adjunct Faculty, ULAB
E-mail: moin.ahmed@ihe.ac.bd
Class Hours
4:10 pm to 5:30 pm (Mon & Wed)
Office hours:
I. 3.40 pm – 4.10 pm (Mon and Wed)
II. 5.30 pm- 6.00 pm (Mon and Wed)
@ Adjunct faculty room, campus B (6th floor)
Course Objectives
In Business Statistics II you will be learning advanced contents in Statistic with application for
Business and Economics. After successful completion of this course a student is expected to solve
problems related to sampling methods, hypothesis testing, correlation and regression, forecasting
etc.
Recommended books
1. Lind D.A., Marchal W.G. & Mason R.D., Statistical Techniques in Business and
Economics, 13th Edition, Mc-Graw Hill.
2. R. I. Levin and D. S. Rubin, Statistics for Management, Latest Edition, Prentice-Hall of
India, New Delhi-110001.
3. S.P. Gupta & M.P. Gupta, Business Statistics, Latest Edition, Sultan Chand & Sons,
Educational Publishers, New Delhi.
4. Additional material may be assigned to supplement the test.
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Assessment Criteria and Grading Policy
Components
Quiz(Midterm)
Midterm
Quiz (final)
Assignment (Final)
Final
Attendance
Total
Marks range
Weight
(%)
20
20
10
15
30
5
100
90 or above
80 -below 90
75-below 80
70-below 75
65-below 70
60-below 65
55-below60
53-below 55
50-below 53
Below 50
Tentative Lesson Plan
1.0 Introduction to Statistics
1.1 Some basic terminology of Statistics
1.2 Application of statistics in business
2.0 Sampling method and central limit theorem
2.1 Concept of sampling and its related terms
2.2 Classification of sampling
2.3 Sampling Error
2.4 Central limit theorem
3.0 Test of hypothesis
3.1 Conceptual framework
3.2 Steps of hypothesis testing
3.3 One-tailed and two-tailed tests
3.4 Hypothesis testing for different statistics
3.5 Type-I and Type-II error
4.0 Non-parametric tests
4.1 Goodness of Fit test
4.2 Goodness of Fit test for normality
4.3 Chi-square test
5.0 Correlation and regression analysis
5.1 Introduction to correlation
5.2 Types of correlation
5.3Simple linear regression
5.4 Multiple regression analysis
5.5 STATA application on regression analysis
6.0 Time series and forecasting
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Letter
Grade
A+
A
AB+
B
BC+
C
D
F
4.0
4.0
3.8
3.3
3.0
2.8
2.5
2.2
1.5
0.0
Course Rules

If a student fails to attend 6 or more classes without showing any valid reason, s/he will be given an
F grade.

Late submission of assignments will not be accepted. Date and time of assignment submission will
be announced in the class.

No make-up for quizzes will be taken.

Course withdrawal: As per university rule

Unfair means / plagiarism: Adoption of unfair means / plagiarism (taking to peers during exam,
trying to / seeing other’s scripts, carrying any sort of paper other than the question paper and answer
scripts during exams, keeping your cell phones on and trying to write after time is up) is strictly
prohibited. These may result mark deduction, canceling the scripts and even expulsion from the
program.
Good Luck!
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