Overview
In this unit you will examine statistics, with particular focus on applications to managerial decision making. You will use statistics techniques to make informed decisions in uncertain environments within the fields of business and accounting. You will analyse and interpret data, trends and patterns as well as make inferences and use probability theory to estimate risks. Other important topics of this unit include probability and forecasting.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Anti-requisite: STAT20028.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2024
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of 'pass' in order to pass the unit. If any 'pass/fail' tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully ('pass' grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the 'assessment task' section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Teaching team, Discipline Leader
There is a small number of quiz questions which means there is limited opportunity for students to practice the same concepts across multiple questions.
Increase number of questions in question bank, especially adding variants (e.g., different case study or data set) for each concept covered.
Feedback from Teaching team, Discipline Leader
While students are able to perform the necessary statistical calculations, some students find it difficult to develop an intuitive understanding of the concepts based on the calculations.
Create resources that allow students to visualise the operation of statistical methods on different data sets.
- Analyse and work with data in a statistical framework
- Interpret data to make informed decisions
- Estimate the probabilities of various scenarios using statistics techniques
- Make statistical inferences based on sample observations
- Capture trends and make future projections
- Compare the implications of alternative strategies in terms of risks and expectations.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) - 20% | ||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||
| 3 - Examination - 60% | ||||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | ||||||
| 2 - Communication | ||||||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | ||||||
| 4 - Research | ||||||
| 5 - Self-management | ||||||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | ||||||
| 7 - Leadership | ||||||
| 8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) - 20% | ||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||||
| 3 - Examination - 60% | ||||||||
Textbooks
Business Analytics and Statistics
Edition: 1st (2019)
Authors: Ken Black et al.
Wiley
Milton, Brisbane Milton, Brisbane , Queensland , Australia
ISBN: 9780730363330
Additional Textbook Information
Students need access to the following IT resources:
CQUniversity Student Email
Internet
Unit Website (Moodle)
Microsoft Excel (or equivalent)
Zoom access
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Microsoft Excel (or equivalent)
- Zoom access
- • Access to a document scanner and/or pdf converter (all assessments submitted electronically as pdf files)
- • Access to a printer (for printing assessment and tutorial materials)
- • Access to a webcam, speaker and microphone or a headset. (To participate in Zoom lectures and tutorials.)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
h.kaur@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Introduction to Statistics
Chapter
Study Guide (SG) Module 1; Set Text (ST) Chapter 1
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Presenting Data
Chapter
SG 2; ST Chapter 2, KaddStat is optional and will never be examined in this unit.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Numerical Descriptive Measures
Chapter
SG 3; ST Chapter 3
Events and Submissions/Topic
Fortnightly Quiz 1
Module/Topic
Probability
Chapter
SG 4; ST Chapter 4
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Discrete Distributions
Chapter
SG 5; ST Chapter 5
Events and Submissions/Topic
Fortnightly Quiz 2
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Continuous Distributions
Chapter
SG 6; ST Chapter 6
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Sampling Distributions
Chapter
SG 7; ST Chapter 7, Sampling has been covered earlier.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Fortnightly Quiz 3
Module/Topic
Confidence interval estimation
Chapter
SG 8; ST Chapter 8 (exclude section 8.4 which is not in syllabus).
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Hypothesis Testing
Chapter
SG 9; ST Chapter 9 (exclude sections 9.6 and 9.7) and Chapter 10 (exclude section 10.5)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Fortnightly Quiz 4
Module/Topic
Chi-square tests
Chapter
SG 10; ST Chapter 12
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Linear regression
Chapter
SG 11; ST Chapter 13 but exclude 13.6 and 13.7
Events and Submissions/Topic
Fortnightly Quiz 5
Module/Topic
Time series forecasting and index numbers
Chapter
SG 12; ST Chapter 15 but exclude 15.4
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
1 Online Quiz(zes)
There will be five online quizzes. These will be held in weeks 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11 and will be available on Moodle Unit Website. Each quiz will start at 8:00 am (AEST) on Monday of the week and will end on Sunday of that week at 11:00 pm (AEST). No extension of the deadline is possible under any circumstances. Each quiz is worth 4 marks and there will be eight questions in each quiz. A maximum of 3 attempts will be allowed for each question, and there is no penalty for multiple attempts.
5
Fortnightly
Quizzes will be held in weeks 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11
Marks will be released immediately after each quiz
Each quiz is worth 4 marks and there will be eight questions in each quiz. A maximum of 3 attempts will be allowed for each question, and there is no penalty for multiple attempts.
Only correct answers will get full marks. There is no mark for the procedure.
- Analyse and work with data in a statistical framework
- Interpret data to make informed decisions
- Knowledge
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Self-management
2 Written Assessment
This is a written assessment task. There will be five questions and you are required to provide written answers to all those questions. The answers must be typed, and where output from Excel (or similar) is asked, you must use Excel (or similar). No marks will be given for answers and graphs which are hand-drawn. Answers to all assignment questions must be submitted as a single file in .doc, .docx, .pdf or .rtf format only and the total file size cannot exceed 100 MB. Files submitted in zipped form or any other format will not be accepted. Excel output can be copied and pasted in the single document.
Week 10 Friday (20 Sept 2024) 11:45 pm AEST
Week 12 Friday (4 Oct 2024)
Part marks will be given for conceptual understanding and correct procedures. Full marks cannot be obtained without proper description and working of the procedure.
- Analyse and work with data in a statistical framework
- Interpret data to make informed decisions
- Estimate the probabilities of various scenarios using statistics techniques
- Make statistical inferences based on sample observations
- Capture trends and make future projections
- Compare the implications of alternative strategies in terms of risks and expectations.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
Examination
Calculator - non-programmable, no text retrieval, silent only
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As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
