M.B.A. (Business Analytics) DEGREE EXAMINATION,
NOVEMBER 2017
STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS
(2016 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 x 2 20)
Answer all questions.
1. What is Inferential Statistics?
2. What is Qualitative Data?
3. What is the Gaussian Curve?
4. What is Normal Distributed Data?
5. What is a Hypothesis?
6. What is Alternative Hypothesis?
7. What do you mean "DISCOUNT"?
8. What is Simple Interest?
9. What is Business Statistics?
10. What is Regression?
Sub. Code
14
CP-8246
2
sp3
Part B x 5 25)
Answer all questions.
11. Describe the Univariate Analysis in Statistics.
Or
Explain the Mean, Median, Mode.
12. Define the Poisson Distribution.
Or
Discuss the Importance of Multi-stage Sampling.
13. Explain the Significance and Uses of Hypothesis
Testing in Statistics.
Or
What is Statistical Inference and why is it
Important?
14. Explain the Importance of Discounting and
Compounding in Financial Mathematics.
Or
Define the Simple interest, Compound Interest, and
Discount in Finance.
15. Explain the role of correlation testing in business
statistics.
Or
Narrate the ordinary least square regression in
detail.
CP-8246
3
sp3
Part C x 10 30)
Answer all questions.
16. Discuss the Measures of Central Tendency in
statistics.
Or
Explain the significance of measures of Association
in descriptive statistics.
17. Define the impact of Business Statistics in detail.
Or
Discuss the role of Probability Distributions.
18. Evaluate the performance of hypothesis testing in
detail.
Or
Analysis the relationship between, the correlation
and regression in detail.
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