Course No.: 303 BUSINESS STATISTICS(BUST
XI)
(For B.Com General and Six Speciality
Programmes)
Marks: 80 Hours: 40
Objective:
To acquaint the students with reasonable working knowledge on statistics.
Course
Contents:
Unit-I:
Introduction: Statistics as a subject, Descriptive statistics compared to
Inferential Statistics; types of data, methods of data analysis of Univariate
data; Concept of central tendancy and dispersion and their measures. 20:10 hrs
Unit-II:
Analysis of Bivariate Data: Linear regression and correlation. 20:10 hrs
Unit-III:
Index Number: Meaning, types and uses; methods of constructing price and
quantity indices (simple and aggregate); tests of adequacy; chain base index
numbers; base shifting splicing and deflating, problems in constructing index
numbers, consumer price index. 20:10 hrs
Unit-IV:
Analysis of time series: Causes of variations in time series data, components
of a time series, decomposition-additive and multiplicative models,
determination of trend-moving average method and method of least squares (only
linear trend). 20: 10 hrs
Text
and Reference Books:
1.
Gupta S.P.: Statistical Methods; Sultan Chand & Sons; New Delhi.
2.
Sancheti & Kapoor: Business Statistics, Sultan Chand & Sons; New Delhi
3.
Hooda, R.P.: Statistics for Business and Economics; Macmillan, New Delhi.
4.
Bajpai: Business Statistics, Pearson; New Delhi.
5.
Ghosh and Saha: Business Mathematics and Statistics, New Central Book Agency,
Hyderabad.