QM213A&B Business & Economic Statistics I
SPRING 2012

Course Description.

A course emphasizing the development and presentation of statistical data for business and economic decision]making. Topics will include fundamentals of measurement and counting, practical guidelines for graphical representation, use of statistical functions and graphics in MS-EXCEL measures of central tendancy and of dispersion, sampling distributions, statistical inference procedures, confidence limits, one-way ANOVA, goodness of fit, tests of independence, parametric correlation, and simple linear regression . Prerequisite or concurrent enrollment in: MA212. 3 lecture hours.

SCHEDULE: MWF: Dewey Computer Lab (DCL)

Section B: 09:00:03 to 09:49:57

Section A: 10:00:03 to 10:49:57

Course description -- detailed assignments, grading, standards, requirements, policies, rewards, penalties, and also the Secret of Life, the Universe and Everything.

Syllabus -- day-by-day listing of every required reading, quiz, exam, and deadline.

Electronic Version of Textbook (Draft as PDF File)

Statistics in Business, Finance, and Information Technology:
A Layered Introduction with Excel
PREPUBLICATION DRAFT VERSION by M. E. Kabay

Class Materials -- Files with demonstrations, exercises and supplementary readings. Also available through NUoodle.

 

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