BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
STATISTICS FOR MANAGEMENT
64005 / 74005
Office
: A428 BSA
Phone (Office)
: 672-1143
Office Hours : To Be Announced
Prerequisites
: BAD 6/74004
Please note that if I am not in my office at these times
you will find a note on my door telling you where I am. Please then go to that
location to see me. Please feel free to call me or leave me a note in my
mailbox if you need to contact me.
Textbook : Bowerman, et al. Business Statistics in
Practice , 2nd Edition
Textbook : Berk and Carey. Data Analysis with
Microsoft Excel, Duxbury, 1998.
Course Objectives :
At the end of the course the student will have
1)
Learned
basic concepts and techniques of statistical inference.
2)
Learned
to apply these basic techniques to real situations.
These skills will prepare you for more advanced work
in your major, either in college or on the job. Emphasis is on Elementary
Regression, ANOVA, and Execustat.
Attendance and Make-up Policy :
In general, students are expected to attend class
and are responsible for any material discussed and/or assigned. With respect to
make-up, the general policy is no make-up of missed work (including exams) is
allowed, and no late work will be accepted. The only exceptions are :
1)
A
prearranged situation (e.g., course field trips, athletic trips, etc.)
2)
Emergency
illness, death in the family etc., inthis case, the instructor should be
notified as soon as possible.
3)
Contact
the instructor early.
Performance Evaluation :
There will be hourly examinations, each worth 100
points, and a final exam worth 200 points. Exam formats will be open book.
There will also be computer projects to be turned in, worth 50 points.
Each exam, as well as the final course grade, will
be curved with the final grade depending on the total number of points earned.
Notice also that the final counts 200 points. Academic dishonesty, in all
forms, is prohibited. All material handed in is in the public domain. This
syllabus is a guide, not an absolute contract.
A.
Students attending the course who do not have the proper prerequisite
risk being deregistered from the class.
B.
Students have the responsibility to ensure they are properly enrolled
in the classes. You are advised to review your official class schedule during
the first two weeks of the semester to ensure you are properly enrolled in this
class and section. Should you find an error in your class schedule, you have
until September 7, 2001 to correct it with your advising office. If
registration errors are not corrected by this date and you continue to attend
and participate in the classes for which you are not officially enrolled, you
are advised now that you will not
receive a grade at the conclusion of the semester for any class in which you
are not properly registered.
C.
Academic Honesty : Cheating means to misrepresent the source, nature,
or other conditions of your academic work (e.g., tests, papers, projects,
assignments) so as to get undeserved credit. The use of the intellectual
property of others without giving them appropriate credit is a serious academic
offense. It is the University’s policy that cheating or plagiarism result in
receiving a failing grade for the work or course. Repeat offenses result in
dismissal from the University.
D.
For Fall 2001 the course withdrawal deadline is Saturday, November 3,
2001. Withdrawal before the deadline results in a “W” on the official
transcript; after the deadline a grade must be calculated and reported.
E.
Students with disabilities : In accordance with University policy, if
you have a documented disability and require accommodations to obtain equal
access in this course, please contact the instructor at the beginning of the
semester or when given an assignment for which an accommodation is required.
Students with disabilities must verify their eligibility through the Office of
Student Disability Services (SDS) in the Michael Schwartz Service Center
(672-3391).
BUSINESS
STATISTICS IN PRACTICE (2nd Edition)
Chapter |
Topic |
Exercises |
|
1 |
Introduction (Skip 1.4) |
|
|
2 |
Descriptive Stat. |
2.15,2.19,2.36,2.45,2.62 |
|
3 |
Probability |
3.3(b,c),3.11,3.18, 3.36-3.46 |
|
4 |
Discrete Random Variables
(Skip 4.4) |
4.8,4.9,4.12,4.14,4.23,
4.25 |
|
5 |
Continuous Random
Variables (Skip 5.4,5.5) |
5.7,5.8,5.23-5.29,
5.33,5.34 |
|
6 |
Sampling Dist. Of Sample
Mean (Skip 6.2) |
6.7,6.11 |
|
7 |
Confidence Intervals (Skip
7.4-7.7) |
7.4-7.8,7.15-7.18,
7.21,7.28,7.29 |
|
8 |
Hypothesis Testing (Skip
8.4,8.6,8.7,8.8) |
8.7-8.9,8.16-8.20,
8.26,8.31,8.32,8.52,8.53, 8.55,8.56 |
|
9 |
Statistical Inf. Based on
2 samples (Skip 9.5) |
9.1,9.2,9.5,9.7,9.9,9.17,
9.20,9.30b,9.37,9.39 |
|
10 |
Analysis of Variance |
Handout |
|
11 |
Simple Regression |
11.1,11.2,11.7,11.11,
11.12,11.19-11.22,11.29, 11.31,11.37,11.41,11.47 |
|
- |
Contingency Tables and |
Handout |
Students with Disabilities :
In accordance with University policy, if you have a
documented disability and require accommodations to obtain equal access in this
course, please contact the instructor at the beginning of the semester or when
given an assignment for which an accommodation is required. Students with
disabilities must verify their eligibility through the Office of Student
Disability Services (SDS) in the Michael Schwartz Service Center (672-3391).
Topic
|
Reading |
Exercises to hand in |
|
Chapter 1 |
Getting Started with Excel |
None |
|
Chapter 2 |
Entering and Manipulating
Data |
1 a-g |
|
Chapter 3 |
Single Variable Graphs and
Statistics |
7,8,9 |
|
Chapter 4 |
Scatterplots |
2,3 |
|
Chapter 5 |
Probability Distributions |
1,13 |
EXAM 1 |
||
|
Chapter 6 |
Regression |
2,3,6,7,8 |
|
Chapter 7 |
Tables |
1,2,10 |
|
EXAM 2 |
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Chapter 8,9 |
Correlation and Regression |
(Ch. 8) 13 (Ch. 9) 1,2,3,5,6 |
|
Chapter 10 |
Analysis of Variance |
1,2,4 |
|
FINAL EXAM |
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