THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

HKU SPACE Community College

Associate Degree Programmes 2017-18
Course Document

Course Title: Quantitative Analysis I

Course Code: C C M A 4 0 0 1

Aims and Objective

This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to statistical knowledge as applied to
business and daily situations and to equip them with the essential skills to identify and apply appropriate
techniques to solve problems. Students will be exposed to concepts such as sampling techniques,
graphical presentations, statistical measures, counting rules and classical probability distribution.

Intended Learning Outcomes of the Course

On completion of the course, students should be able to

ILO1. distinguish between population and sample; apply the different sampling techniques to
select a sample;
ILO2. compute central tendency measures as the arithmetic mean, median and mode;
ILO3. compute dispersion measures as the range, interquartile range, standard deviation and variance;
ILO4. define probability of a simple event; correctly use the concepts of conditional, independent,
mutually exclusive events, and apply the multiplication and addition rules to perform
probability computations;
ILO5. compute binomial and Poisson probabilities, the expected value and standard deviation of a
binomial and Poisson experiment;
ILO6. compute probabilities for a normal distribution and determine normal scores from specific
probability requirements.

Syllabus
1. Data collection and sampling
l Data collection
l Taking a census
l Sampling
l Methods of selection a sample
l Simple random sample
l Systematic sampling
l Stratified sampling

2. Summarizing Data
l Dot Diagrams
l Stem-and-Leaf Displays
l Frequency Distributions
l Graphical Presentations

3. Statistical Descriptions
l Measures of Location
l The mean

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 l The weighted mean
l The median
l The mode
l Measure of Variation
l The range
l The standard deviation
l Quartiles
l Box-and-Whisker Plots

4. Possibilities and Probabilities

l Permutations
l Combinations
l Probability
l Mathematical Expectation
l Some rules concerning probability
l Sample spaces and Events
l Addition rules
l Conditional Probability
l Independent Events
l Multiplication Rules
l Bayes’ Theorem

5. Probability Distributions
l Random Variables
l Expectation
l Variance and Standard Deviation

6. Binomial and Poisson Distributions

l The Binomial Distribution
l Mean and standard deviation of the Binomial Distribution
l The Poisson Distribution
l Mean and standard deviation of the Poisson distribution

7. The Normal Distribution and its Applications

l Continuous Distributions
l The Normal Distribution
l Some Applications
l The Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution

8. Sampling and Sampling Distributions

l Random Sampling
l Sampling Distributions
l The Standard error of the Mean
l The Central Limit Theorem

Assessment

Type of Assessment (Weighting) Description

Assignments (20%)
Continuous Assessment (40%)
Written Test (20%)

Examination (60%) Written Examination

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 Pre-requisite(s)

Nil

Required and Recommended Reading

1. John E. Freund & Benjamin M. Perles (2005), Statistics, A First Course, 8th edn, Prentice
Hall.
2. Levin & Rubin (2000), Statistics for Management, 7th edn, Prentice Hall.
3. Burton, Carrol & Wall (2000), Quantitative Methods for Business and Economics, 2nd edn,
Longman

15.06.2017

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