Elementary Statistics for Business (WL)
Math 143

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• Fall 08 Course Syllabus

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• Formulas

• Hypothesis Testing Tables

• Test Preparation and Past Exams

• Take Home Quiz (Quiz 4), due Monday Sep. 22

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• Excel Assignment 1 10 points

• Excel Assignment 1 Solution should look like this (Do not print the data.)

  IF YOU HAVE EXCEL 2007, PLEASE FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:
  Click on the button on the top left corner. In the dialogue box, click on Excel options. In the next dialogue box click on Add-Ins. Then click on Analysis tool pack. Click go or okay to get out. Now click on data and then data analysis on the tool bar. Once a dialogue box opens click on descriptive statistics. Highlight the data range, click on summary statistics and ok. That will make the summary statistics.

  Here is the data for Excel 1:
  51.4, 50.4, 45.6, 44.8, 44.6, 42.9, 41.6, 40.6, 40.1, 40.1, 39.8, 39.5, 38.6, 38.5, 38.3

• Excel Assignment 2 10 points
  
• Excel Assignment 2 data

• Excel Assignment 3 20 points
  
• Excel Assignment 3 data

• Excel Assignment 4 5 points
  
• Excel Assignment 4 data

• Excel Assignment 5 10 points
  
• Excel Assignment 5 data

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• Writing Assignments:
  1) Write about you.
  2) Nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio data: Explain the difference between two consecutive types. Give examples for each kind and explain why.
  3) Differences between mean and median
  4) Compare the two given data sets
  

  5| 9235
  4| 05899
  3| 257
  2| 25
  1| 7
  SU=10
  LU=1
  

  5| 2
  4| 3567
  3| 0258999
  2| 0227
  1| 8
  SU=10
  LU=1
  Do not crunch numbers. Focus on shape, center, and spread.

  5) What is a measure of spread?
  How do you measure it?
  What are the differences of these measures?
  Due Monday, October 29

  6) Discuss the four rules of probability. At least a page long.

  7) Write about the normal distribution. At least a page.

  8)Assume you an alien and write about some habits on Earth. Ask two questions from 20 friends and summarize data. Two pages of written work and a page of charts.

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• HOW TO MAKE BOX PLOTS USING EXCEL

• EXCEL help

• Another EXCEL Instructions Page

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• EXCEL Instructions
  

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• Let us make a deal

• Stem-and-Leaf Click on "Tables" and then "Many descriptive statistics and stem-and leaf displays"

• Normal Distribution

• Probability and Quantile Applets

• T-distribution

• Z-scores and Normal Distribution

• Central Limit Theorem

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• EXCEL help

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• HyperStat Online an introductory-level hypertext statistics book

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• Instructor's home page

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