Subject Learning Guide

< ADVANCED TOOLS FOR DATA ANALYSIS >

< MNGT633>

M.Phil:
Semester: Spring/ 2024>
Resource Person: < DR. MUHAMMAD UMAIR NAZIR
School Of < SCHOOL OF BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT >

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 CONTENTS

1. PREREQUISITES......................................................................................................2
2. COURSE DESCRIPTION ........................................................................................2
3. COURSE OBJECIVES..............................................................................................2
4. LEARNING OUTCOMES........................................................................................3
5. TEACHINGS AND LEARNING STRATEGIES....................................................3
6. SOFT SKILLS & PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS................................................3
7. LECTURES/ WEEKLY LECTURE PLAN.............................................................4
8. ASSESSMENT............................................................................................................7
9. READING MATERIALS..........................................................................................8
10. COURSE REQUIREMENTS AND EXPECTATIONS..........................................8
11. TERM PAPER:..........................................................................................................8
12. ACADEMIC DISHONETY.......................................................................................9

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 Course Title Advanced Tools for Data Analysis
Course Code MNGT633
Credit Hours 3
Semester 2nd
Resource Person Dr. Muhammad Umair Nazir
Email address [email protected]
Contact Hours (Theory) 10:00-12:00
Contact Hours (Lab) NA
Office Hours for students 10:00-12:00

1. PREREQUISITES

State any pre-requisites of the course along with course code of the course.
For Example
The students who studied ACC101: Principles of Accounting can take the course
2. COURSE DESCRIPTION

Write brief introduction of the course. An example is given below:

This course provides an introduction to cost accounting concepts, including systems for
job-order and process costing. Special problems related to cost-volume-profit
relationships will be studied in depth, with emphasis placed on the budgeting process
and methods of analyzing cost accounting data for managerial planning and control
purposes.
The students will also learn how to accumulate product costs in a manufacturing
environment and will be able to segregate cost by behavior. This course is designed to
give students grounding in the key concepts and techniques of management accounting
and confined to cost techniques, and to prepare them for the use of recent innovations in
the management for remedial action in case of discrepancies.
3. COURSE OBJECIVES

This course covers the identification and application of appropriate statistical techniques for
business research. Topics include univariate, bivariate and multivariate concepts in statistics.
This course is meant to provide students with an understanding of the basic Statistical
Techniques for descriptive and inferential data analysis, which will be useful and helpful in
their specialized Areas for better analysis and optimal Decision-making with given conditions
and constraints.
4. LEARNING OUTCOMES

After successful completion of this course, students are expected to have knowledge
about:
1. Explain the principles statistics and some advanced applications.

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 2. Analyze various problems (research and business) and apply the appropriate statistical
tools to solve them.
3. Design a sound quantitative approach that is appropriate for analysis of a research
problem.
4. Apply the statistical knowledge and tools in research and business applications.
5. Use statistical package (SPSS) and interpret the results.
6. Use PLS-SEM and interpret the results.

5. TEACHINGS AND LEARNING STRATEGIES

Provide the teaching methodology of the course.

For Example
The learning is based on combination of textbook readings, attending lectures and
seminars, tutorials, and project.

 4 Case Studies
 1 Role play
 1 Class Activities
 7 Exercises
 3 Videos
 3 Group Discussion

6. SOFT SKILLS & PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS

How this Course will develop the soft skills.

For Example
This course will develop the following competencies among students.

 Specify a business problem or opportunity

 Identify potential alternative solutions
 Clarify objectives and develop performance matrix
 Address decision tradeoff

7. LECTURES/ WEEKLY LECTURE PLAN

Develop a weekly lecture plan as listed below AS A SAMPLE, stating the topics to be
covered, chapters to follow and reading assignments:
Week Contents Assignment Quiz Presentation
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1 Introduction to Business Statistics
2 Variables and Overview of Statistical
Techniques
3 Descriptive Statistics Assignment Quiz
4 Inferential Statistics:
 Estimation
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  Inferences about population
central values, comparing two
population central values and
comparing more than two
population central values
5 Inferential Statistics:
 Non-parametric tests

6 Validity & Factor Analysis Quiz

7 ANOVA
MANOVA
Mid Term Examination

9 Regression:
 Simple
 Multiple and multicollinearity

10 Regression Assignment Presentation

 Mediating
 Moderating

11 Basics of SEM Presentation

12 Measurement Model Presentation

13 Structural Model Presentation

14 Mediating & Moderating Variables In Quiz

SEM
15 PLS-SEM

Final term Exams

8. ASSESSMENT

The assessment of this course shall have following breakdown

Attendance/Class Participation 5%
Quizzes/Assignments 20%
Midterm Examination 25%
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 Final term Examination 50%
Quizzes can be announced or un-announced, closed-book, short tests for which normally 10-
20 minutes are given to the students to answer the questions in the classrooms. On the other
hand, the assignments are open book, take home tasks/Exercises for which students are given
2 to 4 days to turn in the given assignment, depending on the expected work to be done for
each assignment. Midterm and Final term examinations are closed book Examinations will be
conducted as per MUL Examination Policy and guidelines as per MUL policy the minimum
pass marks for each course shall be 50%. Students obtaining less than 50% marks in any
course shall be deemed to have failed in that course. The correspondence between letter
grades, credit points, and percentage as per MUL policy shall be as follow:
Letter Grade Grade Points % Obtained in Semester
A+ 4.00 85 and above
A 3.70 80 – 84
B+ 3.30 75 – 79
B 3.00 70 – 74
B- 2.70 65 – 69
C+ 2.30 61 – 64
C 2.00 58 – 60
C- 1.70 55 – 57
D 1.00 50 – 54
F 0.00 Below 50

Assessment Schedule

1st Assignment and Quiz

Before Mid Term
2nd Assignment and Quiz
As per Academic Calendar Mid Term Examinations
3rd Assignment and Quiz
After Mid Term
4th Assignment and Quiz
As per Academic Calendar Final term Examination

9. READING MATERIALS

Provide list of all textbook and Reference book, For example:

Textbook 1. Saunders, M., Lewis, P. & Thornhill (2016). Research

Methods for Business Students (7th Edition), England:
Pearson.

Reference Book 2. Agresti, Franklin & Klingenberg (2018). Statistical the Art
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 and Science of Learning from Data, England: Pearson.

Research Papers/ 3. Black, K. (2016). Business Statistics for Contemporary

Articles Decision Making. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons.

Case Studies 4. Groebner, Shannon & Fry (2018). Business Statistics: A

Decision-Making Approach (10th Edition), England:
Pearson.

5. Pallant, J. (2016). SPSS Survival Manual, 6th Edition.

McGraw Hill.

10. COURSE REQUIREMENTS AND EXPECTATIONS

1. Letter grades will be assigned based on the university standard.

2. Regular classroom attendance is mandatory. Absence from lectures will
negatively affect your grade as per university rules. Attendance is entered into the
CMS daily.
3. All cell phones should be turned off during class. Do not involve inside
conversations.

11. TERM PAPER:

This section is only for BS senior semester students, MS/MPhil & PhD Students.
The research project is a written paper assignment that should be a minimum of 5 to 7
pages, plus supporting material, and preferably no more than 8 pages (All papers in MS
double space format). A presentation or a leading seminar is also required as part of this
assignment. Some suggested topics are as follows:
Students will be allowed to select any organization and business. They will be responsible
to make an in-depth analysis of that organization and they solutions to bring excellence in
that organization or business

12. ACADEMIC DISHONETY

Academic dishonesty is an offence that will not be tolerated in any form. Any student who
is involved in any such activity will be penalized to the fullest extent possible allowed by

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university regulations. If you have any doubts about whether an action constitutes academic
dishonesty, before consult with your instructor before taking the action,
Plagiarism and Cheating: the presentation by a student as his or her own work but is
stolen from someone else. Whenever a student submits a piece of writing claiming it to be
his own authorship, it is generally understood that all the ideas, opinions, facts, figures,
conclusions, revisions, words are the student’s original work, unless he/she has explicitly
indicated otherwise using citations, footnotes, attribution in the text, and/or used quotation
marks.
The use of unauthorized material during an examination in order to secure or give help will
not be tolerated. Academic dishonesty also encompasses unauthorized copying and
distribution of examinations, assignments, reports, projects or term papers or the
presentation of unacknowledged material as if it were the student’s own work.
A person failing to acknowledge and recognize the contribution of the original author, will
be held responsible under academic deception. Such action will necessitate measures to
discipline the student under the University’s academic dishonesty policy. Any academic
dishonesty would call for swift punitive action by the faculty and the names of the students
involved would be reported to the concerned Head of Department.