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Terminated in academic year 2011/2012

Managerial Mathematics

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 714-0370/01
Abbreviation MM
Course title Managerial Mathematics
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry
Course coordinator Mgr. Petr Otipka, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Syllabus of lectures and tutorials
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1. Combinatorics. Random events, operations with them, sample space.
2. Definitions of probability events - classical, geometrical, statistics. Conditional probability, Bayes' theorem. Bernoulli independent repeated trials.
3. Discrete random variable and continuous random variable. Functions of random variables. Moment-generating function, quantiles.
4. Discrete probability distribution.
5. Continuous probability distribution.
6. Random vector. The probability distribution. Expected value, covariance, coefficient of correlation.
7. Statistics. Statistical methods, descriptive statistics
8. Observed data. Point estimators, interval estimators.
9. Statistical hypothesis testing – the testing process, interpretation, importance. Parametric and non-parametric tests.
10. Correlation and regression analysis.
11. Time series.
12. Forecasting. Time series methods.

Literature

Boháč, Zdeněk: Numerical Methods and Statistics, VŠB – TUO, Ostrava 2005.
ISBN 80-248-0803-X

Advised literature

Harshbarger, R.J.-Reynolds, J.J.: Calculus with Applications.
D.C.Heath and Company, Lexington1990, ISBN 0-669-21145-1 
James, G.: Advanced Modern Engineering Mathematics. Addison-Wesley, 1993.
ISBN 0-201-56519-6