STAT 206-007 Fall 2017: Elementary Statistics for Business

Syllabus 

Class Time and Location: TTH 1:15pm - 2:30pm @ WMBB 125

Office hours
  • MWF 9:30am - 10:30am, TTH 9:00am - 11:00am (or by appointment). My office is LeConte 212A
  • Teaching Assistant, Mr. Dongho Shin, (dongho@email.sc.edu) also holds office hours on MW 2:00pm - 4:00pm (or by appointment). His office is LeConte 200D

Textbook: Basic Business Statistics (13th Edition), Berenson M.L., Levine, D.M., and Szabat, K.A. with MyStatLab (BOTH Textbook and MyStatLab are REQUIRED. Homework are regularly assigned through MyStatLab)

MyStatLab Registration Handout and iClicker/Reef Step-by-Step Setup


Tentative Schedule

Chapter
Course Materials
Chapter 1 Defining and Collecting Data
Lecture Notes; Slides
Chapter 2 Organizing and Visualizing Variables
Lecture Notes; Slides
Chapter 3 Numerical Descriptive Measures
Lecture Notes; Slides
Chapter 4 Basic Probability
Lecture Notes; Slides
Chapter 5 Discrete Distributions
Lecture Notes; Slides
Chapter 6 Normal Distribution
Lecture Notes; Slides
Chapter 7 Sampling Distributions
Lecture Notes; Slides
Chapter 8 Confidence Interval Estimation
Lecture Notes; Slides
Chapter 9 Hypothesis Tests
Lecture Notes; Slides
Chapter 10 Two-sample Hypothesis Tests Lecture Notes; Slides
Chapter 13 Simple Linear Regression
Lecture Notes; Slides
Materials that could be helpful
Final Practice Exam (Key)
Formula Sheet

Exams:

  • Exam 1: September 26, 2017
  • Exam 2: October 26, 2017
  • Exam 3: November 30, 2017
  • Final Exam: December 12, 2017 (12:30pm - 3:00pm)

More Dates:

  • Aug. 30, Wednesday: Last day to change/drop a course without a grade of "W" being recorded.
  • Sep. 30, Saturday: Last day to apply for December graduation.
  • Oct. 16, Monday: Last day to drop a course or withdraw without a grade of "WF" being recorded.