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◄Faculty of Economics and Administration►

estimation of sampling errors.
Assessment Continuous Assessment: 50%
Final Examination: 50%
Main Reference (1) United Nations, Household Sample Surveys in
Developing and Transition Countries, Series F, No. 96,
Department of Economics and Social Affairs,
Statistics Division, UN, New York, 2005.
(2) Earl Babbie, The Practice of Social Research, 10th
edition, Wadsworth/Thompson Learning, 2004.
(3) W. Lawrence Neuman, Social Research Methods, 4th
edition, Allyn and Bacon, 2000.
(4) Zikmund, W.G., Business Research Methods, 6th
edition, The Dryden Press, 2004.
(5) Scheaffer, R.L., Mendenhall, W. and Ott, L.,
Elementary Survey Sampling, 5th edition, Duxbury
Press, 2007.
(6) Tryfos, P., Sampling Methods for Applied Research,
John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1996.
(7) SPSS V.14 Brief Guides.

ESGC6122 EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN

Learning Outcomes At the end of the course, students are able to:

(1) Apply the basic principles in designing experiments;
(2) Implement an appropriate experimental design;
(3) Conduct the experiment with ethical consideration;
and
(4) Evaluate the results of experiments for decision
making.
Synopsis of Course This course equips students with the necessary skills for
Contents designing various experiments and analyzing the results of
such experiments. The topics covered are:

(i) Principles of experimental design
(ii) Randomization and replication
(iii) Completely randomized design, randomized block
design and latin squares
(iv) Multiple comparison methods and orthogonal
contrasts
(v) Factorial design, confounding, fractional replication,
and response surface methodology.

Assessment Continuous Assessment: 50%
Final Examination: 50%

Main Reference (1) Montgomery, D.C., Design and Analysis of
Experiments (6 Ed), Wiley, 2005.
(2) Berger, P.D. and Maurer, R.E. Experimental Design
with Applications in Management, Engineering, and the
Sciences, Duxbury Press, 2002.

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