MAS187: Quantitative Methods for Business Management
AEF258: Statistics for Marketing and Management
Semester 1
MAS187 students should "Bookmark" this page!
This page contains additional information about the Semester 1 part of
the introductory module on "Quantitative Methods for Business
Management" (MAS187) and the module "Statistics for Marketing and Management" (AEF258). These two modules share the same lectures.
Schedule of lectures and tutorials
Lectures are on Mondays at 10.00am in Lecture Theatre LT1,
Bedson Building.
Tutorials take place each week on Thursdays and Fridays as follows. Each student attends one tutorial each week.
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Day Time Building Room
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Thursday 9-10 Stephenson F1
Thursday 4-5 King George IV LT1
Friday 9-10 Percy G5
Friday 11-12 Percy G5
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The allocation of students to tutorial groups is given here.
If you have a good reason for wanting to change your tutorial group, please see Dr. Farrow. However, there is likely to be limited scope for changes if we are to keep the numbers close to being equal in the groups.
Lecture notes
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Lecture notes will be posted below, together with solutions to
tutorial exercises. They are in pdf format and you will need Acrobat
Reader to view them - click on the link to download your own (free)
copy.
You should print out and read lecture notes before each lecture
and attempt tutorial questions before each tutorial session -
solutions will be posted after the final tutorial session each
week. The notes and solutions currently available are shown in red
below.
An attendance register will be taken at each tutorial. Please note
that a good attendence record will be taken into account when deciding
whether to pass students with borderline assignment/exam marks.
- Chapter 1: lecture
notes,
slides,
4-up slides,
tutorial solutions
- Chapter 2: lecture
notes,
slides,
4-up slides,
tutorial solutions
- Chapter 3: lecture notes,
slides,
4-up slides,
tutorial solutions,
Farmer's market data,
Jeans sales data.
- Chapter 4: lecture notes,
slides,
4-up slides,
tutorial solutions
- Chapter 5: lecture notes,
slides,
4-up slides,
tutorial solutions
- Chapter 6: lecture notes,
slides,
4-up slides,
tutorial solutions
- Chapter 7: lecture notes,
slides,
4-up slides,
tutorial solutions
- Chapter 8: lecture notes,
slides,
4-up slides,
tutorial solutions
- Chapter 9: lecture notes,
slides,
4-up slides,
tutorial solutions
- Chapter 10: lecture notes,
slides,
4-up slides,
tutorial solutions
- May 8th Revision problems and solutions
- Full set of lecture notes
Please report to me any
errors or suggested improvements to these notes.
Assessment
The assessment of the module consists of a 2 hour examination at the end
of Semester 2 (60%) and an assignment in each semester (20% each).
Obviously I can't show you this year's exam but you can get a copy of
last year's exam paper from the university's exam site.
In fact I have made last year's papers available here for AEF258 and MAS187 . Solutions to some of the questions on the MAS187 paper are available. This year's exam will be closer in style to last year's MAS187 exam than to last year's AEF258 exam but will may be some differences between the exams for the two modules.
The exam for MAS187 will be OPEN BOOK. The exam for AEF258 will not be open book but a formula sheet will be provided. Here is a copy of the formula sheet.
Assignment 1
- Description
- Data for assignment question 2: here
- Data for assignment question 3: here
- Minitab is available from all UCS cluster PCs. Also you can
buy a copy for your own PC (cost £10) from the
UCS Shop.
- To read either of the data files into Minitab, save the file in a suitable directory then, in Minitab, select Open Worksheet . You will need to change the file type to All files