Narmada College of Management, Bharuch, Gujarat, INDIA

CP 108 - At MBA Full Time Semester - I

CP 302- At MBA Evening Semester - III

Quantitative Methods

Objectives:

The objective of the course is to make the students familiar with some basic statistical and linear programming techniques. The main focus, however, is in their applications in business decision-making.

Course Contents:

Mathematical basis of Managerial Decisions: Functions, Application of Functions, and some Special Functions and their Managerial Applications, Matrices and their applications in solving Business Problems, Linear Programming, Frequency Distribution and their Analysis, Probability Theory and Probability Distributions-Normal, Binomial, and Exponential; Correlation, Simple and Multiple Regression Analysis, Time Series Analysis, Hypothesis Testing - Z, t, X2 & F Test, Use of SPSS Package and other Software Packages, Advanced Techniques for Data Analysis- ANOVA, Discriminant Analysis, Factor Analysis, Conjoint Analysis, Multi Dimensional Scaling, Clustering Methods.

Suggested Readings :

Chadha, N.K. Statistics for Behavioral and Social Scientists , Reliance Publishing House, Delhi, 1996.
Gupta, S P and Gupta M P. Business Statistics, New Delhi, Sultan Chand, 1997.
Kazmier, L J and Pohl, N F. Basic Statistics for Business and Economics, New York, MC Graw Hill.
Levin Richard I and Rubin David S. Statistics for Management, New Jersey, Prentice Hall Inc. 1995.
Narag, A.S. Linear Programming and Decision Making, New Delhi, Sultan Chand, 1995.
Sharma, J. K. Fundamentals of Operation Research, Macmillan, New Delhi,2001.
Terry , Sineich. Business Statistics by Examples, London, Collier Mac Millian Publishers, 1990.