Faculty Syllabus

BUSI-2305 Business Statistics

Russell Holloway


Credit Spring 2026

Section(s)

BUSI-2305-006 (15678)
LEC NRG ONL DIL

LEC MW 12:20pm - 1:50pm NRG NRG4 4262

Course Requirements

GRADING

There are four (4) required exams for this course.   The exams will include true/false and multiple-choice questions, as well as open-ended calculations. You will have approximately 40-45 of these types of questions.

 

All exams will be online and completed in Blackboard from a location of your choice as long as it has secure, reliable internet. Choose your location wisely. Alternately, you may contact me and complete the exam in person if that is your preference. Each exam will  account for 20% of your grade.

 

The remaining 20% of your grade in the class will come from a combination of class participation, homework, and pop quizzes (administered in class).

 

 

           EXAM 1                                  20%       

           EXAM 2                                  20%   

           EXAM 3                                  20%

           EXAM 4                                  20%

           Other coursework                  20%

                                                        100%

Readings

STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES IN BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS; Douglas Lind & William Marchal, Samuel Wathen, 17th edition or 18th or 19th; Irwin McGraw-Hill (ISBN   9781260833881)  Note: Other editions of this textbook will work as well 13th, 14th and 15th.  On-line modules are not required.

Course Subjects

  • Organization of measurements
  • Measures of central tendency
  • Discrete & continuous distributions
  • Confidence intervals
  • Analysis of variance (ANOVA)
  • Correlation calculations
  • Counting
  • Probability
  • Hypothesis testing
  • Simple & multiple regression

Student Learning Outcomes/Learning Objectives

●        Lecture Format

●        Credit Hours: 3

●        Contact Hours per week: 3

 

           Descriptive and inferential statistical techniques for business and economic decision making. Topics include collection, description, analysis, and summarization of data; probability; discrete continuous random variables; the binomial and normal distributions; sampling distributions; test of hypotheses; estimation and confidence intervals; linear regression; and correlation analysis. Statistical software is used to analyze data throughout the course. (BUSI 2305 is included in the Business Field of Study). Formerly BUSG 2371

 

           The objective of this course is to provide students with a basic understanding of statistical procedures, techniques, and applications as used in business.

 

Office Hours

M W 1:50 PM - 2:50 PM Northridge 4262

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Office Hours

M W 1:50 PM - 2:50 PM Northridge 4262

NOTE

Published: 01/29/2026 16:49:18