PROBABILITY & STATISTICS
(Bachelor Degree)
Bui Duong Hai
Faculty of Mathematical Economics - NEU
haibd@neu.edu.vn
www.mfe.edu.vn/buiduonghai
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MaterialsMaterials
TEXT BOOK:
[1] Anderson, Sweeney, Williams, Camm, Cochran
(2017), Statistics for Business and Economics, 12th
Edition, South-Western.
[2] Linda H., John F. (2013), Applied Statistics for
Business and Management using Microsoft Excel,
Springer.
[3] Paul Newbold, William L. Carlson, Betty M. Thorne
(2013), Statistics for Business and Economics, 8th
Edtion, Pearson.
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MaterialsMaterials
SOFTWARE:
•Microsoft Excel - Data Analysis Toolpak
•IBM SPSS Package
Calculator
DATA and Others: www.mfe.edu.vn/buiduonghai :
*Program* > *Class*
•Bui Duong Hai (2016), Microsoft Excel Using for
Statistics Practice, NEU (Vietnamese version)
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LECTURE 1 - INTRODUCTIONLECTURE 1 - INTRODUCTION
Concepts
Branches of Statistics
Elements of Statistics
[1] Chapter 1, pp. 1 – 29.
[2] Chapter 1, pp. 1 – 9.
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What is statistics ?What is statistics ?
Opinion Statistics
It seems that there are
more female students than
male in the NEU.
In total of 16,000 NEU
students, there are 10,000
females (62.5%) and 6,000
males (37.5%).
In general, the older the
customer is, the less
money they spend on high-
tech products.
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Age 20-29 30-39 40+
Average
expense 35 28 23