Graduate (S) Business Administration 502

INFORMATION AND ANALYSIS
Fall 2005
 
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Calendar

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September
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4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 1
October
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AUG 31: Data Collection and Presentation
Reading:
  • Chapters 1 & 2
 Recommended Problems:
  • 1.3 (1.2), 1.7, 1.16, 1.22, 2.7, 2.14, 2.39 (2.40)

Note: The first problem in a pair will be covered in class. The problems in parentheses are similar problems with answers in the back of the book if you want more practice.

 Notes:
 
SEP 7: Numerical Descriptive Measures
Reading:
  • Chapter 3
 Recommended Problems:
  • 3.15abc (3.14abc), 3.19 (3.18), 3.25bc (3.24), 3.38cd (3.38ab)
 Notes:.

 

 
SEP 12:  Basic Probability, Decision Making
Reading:
  • Chapter 4 (skip pp. 186 - 191, 200 - 206)
  • Chapter 16
 Recommended Problems:
  • 4.5, 4.6, 4.13 (4.12), 4.24 (4.20), 4.31 (4.32), 4.35
  		Notes:
 
SEP 14: Decision Making (continued), Discrete Probability Distributions
Reading:
  • Chapter 16
  • Chapter 5 (skip pp. 192 - 196, 205 - 212)
 Recommended Problems:
  • 16.14 (16.12), 16.21 (20)
  • 5.5 (5.4), 5.19 (5.18)
 Notes:
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SEP 19: The Normal Distribution and Sampling Distributions (continued)
Reading:
  • Chapter 6 (skip pp. 241 - 252)
 Recommended Problems:
  •  6.5h, 6.7 (6.12), 6.43 (6.42), 6.52 (6.56)
Notes:
 
SEP 21: Confidence Interval Estimation
Reading:
  • Chapter 7 (skip pp. 307 - 314)
Recommended Problems:
  • 7.7 (7.8), 7.15 (7.16), 7.31 (7.30), 7.41 (7.40), 7.45 (7.46), 7.77a (7.44)

Notes:

 
SEP 26: Test #1
 - Monday, September 26
  • Test #1 will cover Chapters 1 - 6, 16.
   Notes:
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SEP 30: Hypothesis Testing - One Sample
Reading:
  • Chapter 8
 		 Recommended Problems:
  • 8.27 (8.28), 8.45 (8.44), 8.54 (8.56), 8.65 (8.70)
Notes:
  • Assignment 2 is due on Friday, September 30.
 
OCT 3: Hypothesis Testing - Two and More Samples
Reading:
  • Chapter 9 (skip pp. 398 - 404)
  • Chapter 11 (skip pp. 476-494)
  		Recommended Problems:
  • 9.9 (9.14), 9.21 (9.22), 9.25 (9.26)
  • 11.3 (11.4), 11.13 (11.14)
 Notes:
 
OCT 5: Correlation and Linear Regression
Reading:
  • Chapter 3 (pp. 137 -143)
  • Chapter 12 (skip pp. 527 - 542, 546 - 550)
 Recommended Problems:
  • 12.47 (12.46)
Notes:
 
OCT 10: Multiple Regression
Reading:
  • Chapter 13 (skip pp. 592 - 599)
  • Chapter 12 (pp. 527 - 538)
 Recommended Problems:
  • 13.35a-g,i,j (13.36)
Notes:
  • Assignment 3 is due on Monday, October 10.
 
OCT 12: Model Building
Reading:
  • Chapter 14
Recommended Problems:
  • 14.3 (14.4), 14.15 (14.16)
 Notes:
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OCT 19: Time-Series Analysis and Forecasting
Reading:
  • Chapter 15
Recommended Problems:
  • 15.7 (15.8), 15.17 (15.18)
 Notes:
  • Assignment 4 is due on Monday, October 24.
 
OCT 26:  Test #2
- Wednesday, October 26
  • Test #2 will cover Chapters 7 -15.
   Notes:
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