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GRADES:   Section 2   Section 4 

 
Course Assignments:

December 16 & 17, 2003    FINAL EXAM!

December 12, 2003   

• Review for the Final

December 10, 2003    Excel Assignment #2 Due

• Problem Set 4 returned - discussion of Regression Analysis

December 8, 2003    PROBLEM SET 4 DUE - Excel Regression Assignment #2 for 5 points.

• Discussion of Multivariate Regression Analysis continued.  QUIZ TODAY! 
• Excel homework 2 assigned - 10 points.  First, complete a simple linear regression calculation on Xr17-96.xls and answer the same five questions as on Friday's quiz. Secondly, complete a multiple variate regression calculation on MBA.XLS and bring the printout to class to finish this part of the homework on Wednesday.

December 5, 2003    Excel Homework Due

• Continue regression analysis, coefficient of determination and begin Multivariate Regression analysis.

December 3, 2003    Test Corrections DUE - Excel Regression Assignment #1 for 5 points.

• Continue discussion of Chapter 17, Regression Analysis with hypothesis testing for the significance of the independent variable. 
• Excel Assignment #1: Problem 17.93: The data is Xr17-93.xls. Bring the print out to class, Friday.

December 1, 2003    Problem Set 4 Assigned

• Re-acquaint ourselves with Least Squares method begin regression analysis, Chapter 17.

November 26-8, 2003    HAPPY THANKSGIVING - BREAK!!!!

November 24, 2003   Review Test III

• Review of Test III.

November 21, 2003    TEST III: Chapters 11 and 12 - Hypothesis Testing and Confidence Intervals

November 19, 2003    Review

• Review and continue Least Squares calculations for the coefficients.

November 17, 2003    Problem Set 3 Due

• Go over the problem set and method of least squares, covariance and correlation calculations Chapter 4, Section 5.

November 14, 2003

• Inference on the population proportion and an introduction to regression analysis.

November 12, 2003

• Inference on the variance and standard deviation using examples 12.3 and 12.4. Problem 12.58 was also covered.

November 10, 2003

• Review of the t-statistic. An introduction to inference on the variance and standard deviation using the Chi-squared test.

November 7, 2003

• Chapter 12: Using the Student's t-statistic in hypothesis testing and confidence intervals.

November 5, 2003

• The difference between one and two tail tests, example 11.2 and the relationship between confidence intervals and hypothesis tests may also be covered. Exercises on pages 339- 341 are 11.9, 11.36-8, 11.43.

November 3, 2003

• The p-value approach to hypothesis testing and interpreting the results of a test will be the two major topics. The SSA example from Fedex will be covered and used to highlight the 7 steps of hypothesis testing.

October 31, 2003     Happy Halloween!

• The 7 steps in hypothesis testing. We will use Example 11.1 to show how the rejection region and p-value approaches to hypothesis testing are consistent.

October 29, 2003

• Review Test and continue hypothesis testing introduction.

October 27, 2003

• Review Test

October 24, 2003

• An introduction to hypothesis testing introduction (Chapter 11). Do problems 11.1 through 11.5.

October 22, 2003     TEST II - CHAPTERS 7 THROUGH 10

October 20, 2003

• Review and determining the minimum sample size.

October 17, 2003

• Confidence intervals for the Normal (z).  Problems 10.41, 45 and 49 are recommended.

October 15, 2003

• Estimation of Parameters, Chapter 10.  Confidence intervals will dominate discussion.

October 13, 2003

• Sampling distributions continued:  Normal Approximation to the Binomial
• Exercises 9.35, 9.39 and 9.40 are recommended.

October 10, 2003

• Sampling distributions continued:  Exercise 9.10 in class and further discussion

October 8, 2003

• Sampling distributions continued:  Example 9.1 and 9.2
• Exercises 9.1 & 2, 6 & 7 (note 8 & 9 answers too), 18 and note 22.
• Exercise 9.10 in class

October 6, 2003

• The Student's t-distribution was introduced (problems 8.93 and 8. 94).  The Chi-Squared Distribution - how to find the values and why the distribution is used (problems 8.99 and 8.100).  Chapter 9  Sampling Distributions  THEORY!  The basic theory behind use of samples to make inferences about populations - an introduction today.

October 3, 2003            Review the Test

• Review the answers and grading on the test.

October 1, 2003                        TEST Ib:  Chapters 1-8

September 29, 2003

• Review for the test.

September 26, 2003

• Transformation from the Standard Normal Distribution to a normal distribution (problems 8.57-59 were done in class). 

September 24, 2003

• The Transformation from a normal to the Standard Normal Distribution (problems 8.38 and 8.40 were done in class).

September 22, 2003

• An Introduction to the Normal Distribution: Problems 8.21 & 8.26-30.

September 19, 2003

• Poisson Probability Distribution

September 17, 2003

• Continue with the Binomial Probability Distribution

September 15, 2003 - EXCEL ASSIGNMENT DUE

• Begin Chapter 7 discrete probability distributions (Binomial

September 12, 2003

• Begin Chapter 7 with definitions and expected value concepts

September 10, 2003

• Chapter 5 - an introduction to data collection and sampling techniques

September 8, 2003

• Excel Assignment - DUE September 15 (for 15 points), and Chapter 4 (coefficient of variation)
• Click on Golf (Section 2, Section 4) and Golf formulas (Section 2, Section 4) to find the Excel examples from class.

September 5, 2003

• TEST IA - Test over concepts and descriptive statistics

September 3, 2003

• Finish covering material in Chapter 2 and Chapter 4 (pp. 106-109)

September 1, 2003

• LABOR DAY - NO CLASS

August 29, 2003

• Finish reading Chapter 2 and Chapter 4 (101 - 105).

August 27, 2003

• Read Chapter 2 (especially pages 25-30) and Chapter 4 (especially pages 93-100).
• Assignment Due Wednesday, September 3, 2003 for 5 points:
  Gather a 31 observation sample data set.  Include a title.

August 25, 2003

• Read Chapter 1 (definitions)

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