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MGCR 271: Business Statistics
Comprehensive Revision Guide and Notes 2025 
 
Part A: Topic Summary and Exam Tips 
Part B: Exam Practice Questions and Answers 
Part C: Sample Examination 
Part D: Suggested Solutions to Exam Paper 
 
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McGill University - MGCR 271: Business Statistics

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ACADEMIC YEAR 2024 - 2025

University	McGill University
Study Level	Undergraduate
Course Code	MGCR 271
Course Name	Business Statistics
Notes Title	Comprehensive Revision Guide and Notes
Format	PDF
Page Length	61

Prepare for success with the most comprehensive study guide for MGCR 271: Business Statistics - at McGill University. This essential resource supports your learning and revision throughout the course, offering detailed notes, exam-style questions, and expert advice on avoiding common pitfalls. Thoroughly updated to cover all course topics, the guide includes expertly written examples, practice questions, and sample exam papers with answer keys, ensuring you can confidently tackle any assessment and excel in your studies.

Overview:

Statistical concepts and methodology, their application to managerial decision-making, real-life data, problem-solving and spreadsheet modeling. Topics include: descriptive statistics; normal distributions, sampling distributions and estimation, hypothesis testing for one and two populations, goodness of fit, analysis of variance, simple and multiple regression. Prerequisites: MATH 122 and MATH 123 or equivalent. Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECON 227D1/D2, ECON 257D1/D2, MATH 203, MATH 204, MATH 324, or PSYC 204.

Key Areas of Focus:

Understand and describe data distributions.
Analyze relationships between different data sets.
Apply basic probability theory to solve business problems.
Use statistical methods to analyze count data.
Perform statistical inference on means and proportions.
Conduct simple and multiple regression analysis.
Implement forecasting techniques and logistic regression models.

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