SE140 : Principles of Statistics 140

Department

Department of Business Administration Management

Academic Program

Bachelor in Business Management

Type

Compulsory

Credits

03

Prerequisite

Overview

The course aims to enable the student to use statistical measures and apply them to the studied phenomena, and to provide him with initial knowledge of the rules of statistical analysis. In addition, the student will learn about the importance of statistics in practice and its keeping pace with scientific developments. As a result of this course, the student should deduce the significance of numbers in statistics.

Intended learning outcomes

Knowledge and understanding

  • The student knows the basic theoretical and applied principles of the course.
  • The student understand how to summarize the characteristics of the society under study.
  • The student compares the types of statistical data and how to represent them graphically.
  • The student remember the most important measures used to describe the data.

2. Mental skills

  • The student will be able to know the types of data and how to display them in tables.
  • The student link between methods of entering data into the computer and how to draw conclusions.
  • The student be able to know the application of statistical measures according to the type of data.
  • The student will master the connection between dealing with numbers and their relationship to practical reality.

3. Scientific and professional skills

  • Providing the student with the skill of using statistical foundations on computers.
  • Providing the student with analyzing data and describing it statistically.
  • Providing the student with how to describe and analyze the characteristics of the society under study in practice.
  • Providing the student with saving time and effort in the use and application of statistics in various fields.
  • The student learns to measure the degree and type of correlation between the studied variables and phenomena.

4. General Skills

  • The student has the ability to dialogue and discussion.
  • The student be able to communicate with others.
  • The student should be able to manage time.
  • The student should be able to work in a team.

Teaching and learning methods

  • Attending lectures required for the course.
  • Ask some questions and raise some issues in the lecture and involve the students in answering and discussing them.
  • Give the student a task that needs to be done.
  • Assign students to prepare a summary of the lessons according to their understanding of the lecture.

Methods of assessments

  • First midterm exam 20%.
  • Second midterm exam 20%.
  • Final exam 60%.

Week

Scientific subject

The number of hours

1

The concept of statistics, its divisions, and data types

3

2

Methods of data collection

3

3

Frequency distribution tables for data types

3

4 ، 5

Describe, display, organize and represent data graphically

6

6 ، 7

Measures of central tendency

6

8

Relationship between averages

3

9

Dispersion measures

3

10

Skewness and kurtosis

3

11 ، 12

Correlation and simple linear regression

6

13 ، 14

Introduction to probability

6

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Financing Principles (FIN160)
Principles of Statistics 140 (SE140)
Computer Fundamentals (ECM181)
Principles of Statistics 2 (SE141)
Principles of Accounting II (ACC131)
Fundamentals of mathematical analysis 1 (SE142)
Political Science (POL150)
Intermediate Accounting II (ACC 231)