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316-352 Quantitative Business Analysis

Year 3 Economics.

Credit points: 12.5

Coordinator: Dr J. Hirschberg.

Prerequisite: 316-205 Introductory Econometrics or 316-206 Quantitative Methods 2.

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:
• determine whether significant differences exist between either univariate or mutivariate populations;
• obtain simultaneous interval estimates of the parameters in multivariate populations;
• use ANOVA and MANOVA procedures with both univariate and multivariate populations;
• employ either discriminant analysis or logit analysis to classify individual cases into different categories.

Timetable: Second semester

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).

Prescribed texts:

• Lapin L L Quantitative Methods for Business Decisions Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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