1. Association
of Attributes – Rules,
Coefficient of association, Test of consistency of data, Chi-square Test.
2. Probability
– Basic concepts, types
of events, rules of addition and multiplication, Bayes Theorem, Theoretical
Frequency Distribution, Binomial, Poisson and Normal.
3. Theory
of Sampling – Types of
sampling, Standard error, Type I and II error, One tailed and Two tailed test.
Level of significance, Null and Alternate hypotheses, significance test of
sampling of attributes, Sampling of Variables- large and small samples,
Analysis of Variance.
4. Research
Methodology –
Identification of Research Problem, Formulation of hypotheses, Characteristics
of Socio-economic research, Research procedure, Types of Research Design.
5. Information
need – Types of data and
methods of their collection, Questionnaire and Schedule designing, Editing,
Classification and Tabulation of data, Interpretation and analysis of data,
Presentation of Research Report.
References:
1. Quantitative Techniques : C. R Kothari
2. Statistics for Management : Levin R.I and
Rubin D.S
3. Foundations of Behavioural Research: Kerlinger F.N
4. Business Statistics: S.P Gupta and M.P Gupta
5. Fundamentals of Statistics: Ethance D.N
6. Statistics: B.N. Gupta
7. Statistics, Theory and Practice: M.C.
Shukla and S.S Gulshan