MTHSC 309 Fall 2013 Section 007: Introductory Business Statistics
Syllabus and Covered Materials
Office hours: TTh 8:30am - 9:30am or by appointmentTextbook: 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 |
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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