Masters Program in Business Administration

MBA (0715V-1)

Syllabus: Quantitative Techniques

Session 1: Introduction to Statistics, Scope and

Limitations; frequency distribution & Tabular
representation of data (steps for conducting a
frequency distribution). Advantage of tabulation over
Textual presentation.

Session 2: Measures of Central Tendency: Mean,

Median , Mode; Absolute measures of Dispersion;
Range, Quartile Deviation, Mean Deviation, Standard
Deviation; Relative Measures of Dispersion.

Session 3: Measures of Association: Simple & Rank

Correlation; Multiple Correlation; Regression;
Exercises/examples on correlation, at the workplace.

Session 4: Probability--Meaning & importance;

Theories of Probability—Bayes Theorem; Probability
distribution—Poisson, Binomial, Uniform & Normal
distribution; application of Poisson & Normal
distribution at the workplace

Session 5: Determinants & Matrices- Cramer's rule

and Linear equations
Session 6: Testing of Hypothesis – T- test, Z-Test, and
Chi-square Test;
Decision Theory-- Payoff table, opportunity loss or
Regret table; Decision under uncertainty and risk.

Session 7: Assignments.

Each session is of 3 hours duration

0715 V-1 MBA