BUSI3007 - Business Research Methods - School of Business Core Course

GENERAL

This course is intended for students of the Baptist University of Hong Kong. The aim of this course is to introduce students to research methods. Material for the course will be uploaded here as it becomes available.

SCHEDULE 

This course was last taught in Spring 2022

LECTURES

1.    Introduction to Statistics

       [Handout]   [Slides]   [Problems]   [Lab]

2.    Probability - Basic Concepts & Rules

       [Handout]   [Slides]   [Problems]   [Lab]

3.    Data - Frequency Tables & Histograms

       [Handout]   [Slides]   [Problems]   [Lab]

4.    Data - Centrality & Dispersion

       [Handout]   [Slides]   [Problems]   [Lab]

5.    Data - Asymmetry & Quantiles

       [Handout]   [Slides]   [Problems]   [Lab]

6.    Probability - Discrete Distributions

       [Handout]   [Slides]   [Problems]   [Lab] 

7.    Probability - Continuous Distributions

       [Handout]   [Slides]   [Problems]   [Lab] 

8.    Methods - Sampling & Inference

       [Handout]   [Slides]   [Problems]   [Lab] 

9.   Estimation - Confidence Intervals

       [Handout]   [Slides]   [Problems]   [Lab] 

10.   Estimation - Hypothesis Testing

       [Handout]   [Slides]   [Problems]   [Lab] 

11. Estimation - Statistical Correlation

       [Handout]   [Slides]   [Problems]   [Lab] 

12.  Estimation - Simple Regression

       [Handout]   [Slides]   [Problems]

13.  Estimation - Multiple Regression

       [Handout]   [Slides]      [Lab]       [Lab] 

++   Summary & Cheatsheets

       [Miscellani]

PROBABILITY TABLES 

   [Table - Binomial]

   [Table - Normal-z]

   [Table - Student-t]

   [Table - Fisher-F]

   [Table - Poisson]

   [Table - Chi-square]

SHINY APPS 

    [Histogram]

    [Normal Distribution]

    [Uniform Distribution]

    [Binomial Distribution]

    [Student-t Distribution]

    [Chi-Squared Distribution]

    [Fisher-F Distribution]

    [Triangular Distribution]

    [Hypergeometric Distribution]

    [Poisson Distribution]

    [Exponential Distribution]

VIDEOS
[Repository]

TEXTBOOK

Main Textbook

Douglas A. Lind, William G Marchal, Samuel A. Wathen, Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics, The McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Operations and Decision Sciences, 17th edition (2017), 978-1259666360. My lectures roughly follow this textbook.

Other Textbook

William G. Zikmund, Barry J. Babin, Jon C. Carr, Mitch Griffin, Business Research Methods, South-Western, 9th edition (2013), 978-1439080672. This covers the "survey design" topic in detail. My lectures do not use this textbook. 

EXTRA LECTURES 

Introduction to R

       [Get Started]   [Get Data] 

Methods - Data Collection & Survey Design

       [Handout]   [Slides]   [Problems]

RESOURCES - DOCUMENTS

   [HELP] 

ONLINE COMPILERS

http://rextester.com

https://repl.it

https://tio.run

https://rdrr.io/snippets/

http://www.compileonline.com

DATASETS 

1. Applewood Auto Group Dataset

   [Applewood.xlsx]   Lind, 17th edition

2. Major League Baseball Dataset

   [Major_League_Baseball_2016.xlsx]   Lind, 17th edition

3. North Valley Real Estate Dataset

  [Real_Estate.xlsx]   Lind, 17th edition

4. American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses

  [Aspan_Membership.xls]   Lind, 15th edition   

5. McGivern Jewellers Dataset

  [McGivern_Jewellery.xls]   Lind, 15th edition