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<SUBJECT ID="316-352" CODEUSED="316-352">
<TITLE>QUANTITATIVE BUSINESS ANALYSIS</TITLE>
<COORDINATOR>Dr J. Hirschberg.
<PREREQUISITES>316-205 Introductory Econometrics or 316-206 Quantitative Methods 2.
<SEMESTER>Second semester
<CONTACT>Two 1-hour lectures and a 90 minute tutorial/practice class a week.
<OBJECTIVES>On completion of this subject students should be able to:
<ul>
<li>determine whether significant differences exist between either univariate or mutivariate populations;
<li>obtain simultaneous interval estimates of the parameters in multivariate populations;
<li>use ANOVA and MANOVA procedures with both univariate and multivariate populations;
<li>employ either discriminant analysis or logit analysis to classify individual cases into different categories.
</ul>
<CONTENT>Linear programming and decision theory and some of the key applications in areas such as Financial Management, Media Selection, Capital Budgeting, Production Control and Transportation Models.
<ASSESSMENT>A 2-hour examination (80 per cent), a assignment (10 per cent) and weekly tutorial exercises (10 per cent).
<PRESCRIBEDTEXTS>
<ATEXT>Lapin L L <i>Quantitative</i> <i>Methods for Business Decisions </i>Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
</PRESCRIBEDTEXTS>
</SUBJECT>
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