Program Overview

MBS659 - Quantitative Research for Business

Overview

This unit is archived. Please refer to the end date.

Offerings

The following offerings are available for this unit:

• KAPLAN-SGP-TJA-MIXEDMODE-
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-TJA
  • Location: Kaplan Higher Education Academy Pte. Ltd
  • Attendance mode: Mixed Mode
  • Start year: 2026
  • End year: 2026
  • Self enrol: No
• KAPLAN-SGP-TJA-MIXEDMODE-
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-TJA
  • Location: Kaplan Higher Education Academy Pte. Ltd
  • Attendance mode: Mixed Mode
  • Start year: 2028
  • End year: 2028
  • Self enrol: No
• KAPLAN-SGP-TJA-ONLINESCHD-
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-TJA
  • Location: Kaplan Higher Education Academy Pte. Ltd
  • Attendance mode: Online Scheduled
  • Start year: 2028
  • End year: 2028
  • Self enrol: Yes
• KAPLAN-SGP-TMA-MIXEDMODE-
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-TMA
  • Location: Kaplan Higher Education Academy Pte. Ltd
  • Attendance mode: Mixed Mode
  • Start year: 2025
  • End year: 2025
  • Self enrol: No
• KAPLAN-SGP-TMA-MIXEDMODE-
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-TMA
  • Location: Kaplan Higher Education Academy Pte. Ltd
  • Attendance mode: Mixed Mode
  • Start year: 2027
  • End year: 2027
  • Self enrol: No
• KAPLAN-SGP-TMA-ONLINESCHD-
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-TMA
  • Location: Kaplan Higher Education Academy Pte. Ltd
  • Attendance mode: Online Scheduled
  • Start year: 2027
  • End year: 2027
  • Self enrol: Yes
• KAPLAN-SGP-TSA-MIXEDMODE-
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-TSA
  • Location: Kaplan Higher Education Academy Pte. Ltd
  • Attendance mode: Mixed Mode
  • Start year: 2026
  • End year: 2026
  • Self enrol: No
• KAPLAN-SGP-TSA-MIXEDMODE-
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-TSA
  • Location: Kaplan Higher Education Academy Pte. Ltd
  • Attendance mode: Mixed Mode
  • Start year: 2028
  • End year: 2028
  • Self enrol: No
• KAPLAN-SGP-TSA-ONLINESCHD-
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-TSA
  • Location: Kaplan Higher Education Academy Pte. Ltd
  • Attendance mode: Online Scheduled
  • Start year: 2026
  • End year: 2026
  • Self enrol: Yes
• KAPLAN-SGP-TSA-ONLINESCHD-
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-TSA
  • Location: Kaplan Higher Education Academy Pte. Ltd
  • Attendance mode: Online Scheduled
  • Start year: 2028
  • End year: 2028
  • Self enrol: Yes
• MURDOCH-T1-FACE2FACE-
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-T1
  • Location: Murdoch
  • Attendance mode: Face to Face
  • Start year: 2026
  • End year: 2026
  • Self enrol: Yes
• MURDOCH-T1-ONLINEFLEX-
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-T1
  • Location: Murdoch
  • Attendance mode: Online Flexible
  • Start year: 2026
  • End year: 2026
  • Self enrol: Yes
• MURDOCH-T2-FACE2FACE-
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-T2
  • Location: Murdoch
  • Attendance mode: Face to Face
  • Start year: 2025
  • End year: 2025
  • Self enrol: Yes
• MURDOCH-T2-FACE2FACE-
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-T2
  • Location: Murdoch
  • Attendance mode: Face to Face
  • Start year: 2027
  • End year: 2027
  • Self enrol: Yes
• MURDOCH-T2-ONLINEFLEX-
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-T2
  • Location: Murdoch
  • Attendance mode: Online Flexible
  • Start year: 2025
  • End year: 2025
  • Self enrol: Yes
• MURDOCH-T2-ONLINEFLEX-
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-T2
  • Location: Murdoch
  • Attendance mode: Online Flexible
  • Start year: 2027
  • End year: 2027
  • Self enrol: Yes
• MURDOCH-T3-FACE2FACE-
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-T3
  • Location: Murdoch
  • Attendance mode: Face to Face
  • Start year: 2026
  • End year: 2026
  • Self enrol: Yes
• MURDOCH-T3-ONLINEFLEX-
  • Teaching period code: Trimester-T3
  • Location: Murdoch
  • Attendance mode: Online Flexible
  • Start year: 2026
  • End year: 2026
  • Self enrol: Yes

Requisites

Exclusion

• MBS522: Quantitative Methods for Business (4 cp)
• MBS622: Quantitative Methods for Business (4 cp)

Enrolment Rules

Enrolment in a graduate-level course.

Learning Outcomes

1. Develop a critical understanding of statistical terminologies and its role in quantitative research for business decision-making.
2. Examine the nature of quantitative data and how to prepare it for descriptive and inferential analysis.
3. Apply appropriate statistical techniques relevant for decision-making processes in businesses and other organisations.
4. Conduct Hypothesis Testing in statistical analysis to answer research questions.
5. Produce statistical reports using the SPSS software, ensuring that the reports are clear and well-supported, with appropriate explanations and interpretations of the results.
6. Demonstrate a capacity to work collaboratively with team members including communication, project and time management skills.

Unit Content

• Data collection and management
• Work with, describe and manage data
• Confidence and uncertainty in statistics
• Reliability, validity and sampling
• Testing relationships between variables- Correlation techniques
• Testing relationships between variables- Linear standard regression techniques
• Testing relationships between variables- hierarchical and stepwise regression techniques
• Analysing underlying construct- Factor analysis
• Comparing between samples: T-tests
• Comparing between 3 or more samples: ANOVA tests
• Non-parametric techniques
• Structural Equation Modelling

Unit Details

• Unit version: 35
• Version start date: 01/01/2026
• End date: 31/12/2025
• Owning college: College of Business
• Owning school: Accounting and Finance
• Credit points: 3

UN Sustainable Development Goals

This curriculum aligns with the following UN Sustainable Development Goals:

• Goal 4: Quality education