The syllabus of 1 Yr - Applied Operations Research for Management subject under Master of Business Administration in Marketing Management offered by Vinayaka Missions University, Directorate of Distance Education is as follows:

UNIT - 01
LINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS (LPP): LPP- MEANING - FORMULATION OF LPP -
GRAPHICAL METHOD - SIMPLEX SOLUTION- BIG M METHOD

UNIT - 02
TRANSPORTATION & ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS: TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM-NORTH -
WEST CORNER SOLUTION - LEAST COST METHOD

UNIT - 03
VOGEL`S APPROXIMATION METHOD- STEPPING STONE METHOD - MODI METHOD -
ASSIGNMENT MODEL- HUNGARIAN METHOD

UNIT - 04
SEQUENCING PROBLEM - PROCESSING N JOBS THROUGH 2 MACHINES- PROCESSING N
JOBS THROUGH 3 MACHINES -PROCESSING N JOBS THROUGH M MACHINESPROCESSING
2 JOBS THROUGH M MACHINES

UNIT - 05
GAME THEORY - MEANING - SADDLE POINT - TWO PERSONS ZERO SUM GAMESDOMINANCE
PROPERTY

UNIT - 06
NETWORK PROJECT SCHEDULING &REPLACEMENT THEORY: NETWORK AND BASIC
COMPONENTS- RULES - CPM AND PERT FOR PROJECT SCHEDULING

UNIT - 07
SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION: SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION CONCEPTS-NORMAL
DISTRIBUTION-T-DISTRIBUTION-SAMPLE SIZE-STANDARD ERROR, ESTIMATION: POINT
AND INTERNAL ESTIMATES OF PROPORTIONS AND MEAN FROM LARGE & SMALL
SAMPLES

UNIT - 08
TESTING OF HYPOTHESIS: HYPOTHESIS TESTING OF PROPORTION AND MEAN-SINGLE
AND TWO TAILED - TESTS-ERRORS IN HYPOTHESIS TESTING-MEASURING THE POWER
OF HYPOTHESIS TEST

UNIT - 09
CORRELATION REGRESSION: CORRELATION - MEANING - TYPES - METHODS OF
STUDYING CORRELATION. REGRESSION - MEANING - REGRESSION EQUATIONS -
REGRESSION CO-EFFICIENT

UNIT - 10
STANDARD ERROR OF ESTIMATE CHI-SQUARE ANALYSIS: ESTIMATION OF CHI-SQUARE
AND INTERPRETATION-CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION CHI-SQUARE TESTS FOR
INDEPENDENCE

UNIT - 11
ANOVA: ESTIMATION AND INTERPRETATION OF F STATISTIC-F DISTRIBUTION-F
HYPOTHESIS TESTS

UNIT - 12
TIME SERIES ANALYSIS: TIME SERIES-VARIATIONS IN TIME SERIES-TREND ANALYSISCYCLICAL,
SEASONAL AND IRREGULAR VARIATIONS-DEALING WITH ALL FOUR
VARIATIONS OF TIME SERIES