MTHSC 309 Fall 2013 Section 007: Introductory Business Statistics

Syllabus and Covered Materials

Office hours: TTh 8:30am - 9:30am or by appointment

Textbook: Statistics for Business and Economics, McClave, Benson, and Sincich, 11th edition (required)

MyStatLab: Student Registration Handout

DDXL is an improtant and useful Excel Add-in to help you easily perform business analytics using statistical tools that will be taught in this course. Please follow these instructions to install DDXL on your computer.

Homework are regularly assigned on MyStatLab.


Lecture Notes

Chapter
Materials
Chapter 1: Statistics, Data, and Statistical Thinking
Lecture Notes, Slides, Worksheet 1 (key)
Chapter 2: Methods for Describing Sets of Data
Lecture Notes (2a, 2b)
Slides (2a, 2b)
Worksheet 2 (key), Worksheet 3 (key)
Learning Activities: 2a-1, 2a-2, 2b-1, 2b-2
Chapter 3: Probability
Lecture Notes, Slides (3a, 3b)
Worksheet 4 (key), Worksheet 5 (key)
Leanrning Activities: 3-1, 3-2, Headsize
Chapter 4: Random Variables, Discrete and Continuous Probability Distributions
Lecture Notes (4a, 4b)
Slides (4a, 4b)
Worksheet 6 (key), Worksheet 7 (key), Worksheet 8 (key)
BodyTemp data
Learning Activities: 4a-1, 4a-2, 4a-3, 4b-1, 4b-2, 4b-3
Chapter 5: Inferences Based on a Single Sample
Lecture Notes, Slides
Worksheet 9 (key)
HDCosts Data, Neverslip Data
Learning Activities: 5-1, 5-2
Chapter 6: Hypothesis Tests
Lecture Notes, Slides, A Summary
Worksheet 10 (key)
Fastfood Data, House Data, Steel Data
Learning Activities: 6-1, 6-2
Chapter 10: Simple Linear Regression
Lecture Notes 1, Lecture Notes 2
Slides, A Flow Chart
Worksheet 11 (key),
House Data

Useful Tables

Exams

  • Exam 1: Sep 24, 2013
  • Exam 2: Oct 29, 2013
  • Exam 3: Dec 03, 2013
  • Final Exam: 7:00pm-09:30pm, Dec 09, 2013