Understand appropriate business research methodologies and how to apply them to support decision-making process;
2. Understand various qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and techniques;
3. Explain how statistical techniques can solve business problems;
4. Identify and evaluate valid statistical techniques in a given scenario to solve business problems;
5. Explain and justify the results of a statistical analysis in the context of critical reasoning for a business problem solving;
6. Apply statistical knowledge to summarize data graphically and statistically, either manually or via a computer package;
7. Justify and interpret statistical/analytical scenarios that best fits business solution;
8. Explain and justify value and limitations of the statistical techniques to business decision making and;
9. Explain how statistical techniques can be used in research and trade publication.

Prescribed text
Anderson D.R & Sweeney, D.J and Williams, T.A (2020) Essential of Modern Business Statistics, 8th edition.
Cengage Learning.
Recommended reading
1. Cooper, D.R. & Schindler, P.S. (2014), Business Research Methods, 12th Edition, Boston, McGraw Hill/Irwin.
2. Levine, D.M., Stephan D.F. and Szabat K.A. (2017), Statistics for Managers Using Microsoft Excel, 8th Edition, Pearson Education, the United Kingdom. ISBN: 9781292156347
3. Selvanathan, E.A., Selvanathan, S. and Keller, G. (2017), Business Statistics (BS), Australia and New Zealand, Abridged 7th Edition, Cengage/Thomson Learning Australia. ISBN: 9780170369473.
4. Selvanathan, S. and Selvanathan, E.A. (2017), Learning Statistics and EXCEL in Tandem (LSET), 4th Edition, Cengage Learning, Australia. ISBN: 9780170351089. Websites:
https://www.abs.gov.au/
https://aifs.gov.au/

ASSESSMENT 1: ONLINE MCQ TEST
Aligned Unit learning outcomes
1. Understand appropriate business research methodologies and how to apply them to support decision-making process;
2. Understand various qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and techniques.

Purpose and requirement this assessment:
The purpose of the online test will be to test students’ knowledge on weekly lecture and tutorial activities.
Students are expected to have reviewed the topics covered during Lecture 1 to Lecture 4 inclusive.
Guideline:
• Online multiple-choice question test
• 1 hour

ASSESSMENT 2: GROUP ASSIGNMENT
Aligned Unit learning
outcomes
1. Understand appropriate business research methodologies and how to apply them to support decision-making process;
2. Understand various qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and techniques;
3. Explain how statistical techniques can solve business problems;
4. Identify and evaluate valid statistical techniques in a given scenario to solve business problems;
5. Explain and justify the results of a statistical analysis in the context of critical reasoning for a business problem solving.

Purpose and requirement of this assessment:

Particularly, students are required to demonstrate understanding and application of basic statistics concepts to make business decision. Moreover, students should demonstrate their capability of data analysis and presentation using MS excel.
Guideline
This will consist of a statistical question based on using various statistical techniques. The main focus of the assignment is on topics studied in week 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. This assignment is to be completed as a group assignment with specific individual components.

ASSESSMENT 3: TUTORIAL QUESTION ASSIGNMENT
Aligned Unit learning outcomes
1. Understand appropriate business research methodologies and how to apply them to support decision-making process;
2. Understand various qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and techniques;
3. Explain how statistical techniques can solve business problems;
4. Identify and evaluate valid statistical techniques in a given scenario to solve business problems;
5. Explain and justify the results of a statistical analysis in the context of critical reasoning for a business problem solving;
6. Apply statistical knowledge to summarize data graphically and statistically, either manually or via a computer package.

Purpose: This assignment is designed to assess your level of knowledge of the key topics covered in this unit.
This will assess students’ competency on making decision by analysing business dat.
Description:
This will cover all the learning objectives of the unit. This assignment is an individual assignment and it replaces the final examination in face to face delivery mode.