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Course name Statistics for Managers using MS Excel, part 1
Course date 26.08.2024 - 19.05.2025
Institution Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences
Course language English
Credits 5 ECTS credit

Field Business HUB, Entrepreneurship HUB
Teacher Marcin Topolewski
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Level Bachelor

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Statistics for Managers using MS Excel, part 1

26.08.2024 - 19.05.2025

Course description

You are able to use basic statistical methods and techniques of data processing and analyzing, which is: collecting, presenting and describing data, applying proper statistical techniques for hypothesis testing about relationship between variables. You understand the basic concepts in quantitative data analysis. The course will focus on practical applications with MS Excel.

Jamk Competences: Learning to learn- You develop critical and analytical mindset that helps you to study and review existing knowledge in the light of relevant learning resources and learning methods; incentivizes you to acquire new knowledge; and develops your intellectual capabilities to seek conclusions and draw inferences in various contexts. To achieve this competence, you will: – learn to formulate relevant questions and seek information, – review relevant theoretical, and empirical literature to comprehend diverse perspectives and evaluate, and interpret arguments and counter-arguments, – understand new developments in your field of study and make informed decisions based thereon. – acquire the researcher’s mindset to problematize, explore and understand real-life phenomena especially in the academic track system.

Proactive development- You develop solutions in the light of current as well as anticipated situations and challenges in business by applying knowledge, critical reasoning and analytical skills. You ensure that these solutions are feasible, relevant, creative, user-friendly, and sustainable as well as underline active cooperation amongst different actors. To achieve this competence, you will: – apply existing knowledge and utilize relevant research methods including digital technology in development projects, – interpret new evidence in the light of existing body of knowledge, make comparisons and draw inferences, – express your intellectual contribution through scientific or professional writings, – understand utility, creativity, viability, scalability, and sustainability of new solutions.

IB competence: Responsible international business management- You develop your intellectual capabilities to seek conclusions and draw inferences in an international environment to become responsible manager. You develop creative and insightful solutions to solve complex business problems both in the present and the future with explicit emphasis on local and international standards of ethics, responsibility, and sustainability and implications on various stakeholders. To achieve this competence, you will: – study developments in your discipline in the international learning milieu and understand various aspects of responsible business management including global business trends and competitive landscape. – derive and interpret new evidence and compare them with the existing body of knowledge in the global context to draw useful inferences, – critically assess the implications of actions and decision of the international organizations. – understand the impact of the of the actions and decisions on the community, in general, and specific stakeholders, in particular. – understand core aspects of people management in the international business environment.

Content: Data collection, organizing data, data presentation, descriptive statistics, exploratory data analysis, probability distributions, sampling distributions, confidence interval estimation, fundamentals of hypothesis testing: one sample tests, two-sample tests, analysis of variance, chi-square and nonparametric tests. All with applications in MS Excel.

Assessment criteria

0-5.

Course way of working and time table

100% virtual course. Distant learning. Introductory meeting, video lectures and tutorials, homework exercises and assignments. Assignments or/and projects. Deadlines to be announced at the beginning of the course.

Video lectures and tutorials PowerPoint slides MS Excel applications Literature: Statistics for Managers using MS Excel, Global Edition, 8/E, David M. Levine, David F Stephan, Kathryn A. Szabat, 2018 Data Analysis with SPSS: A First Course in Applied Statistics (4th Edition) Stephen A. Sweet, Karen Grace-Martin, 2012

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