251-2links 1/2/08
Roger Even Bove
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS AND TABLES FOR ECO251 & 252
http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco252/251-2conts.doc
Please bring this material and your text to classes and exams!
CONTENTS
pg. 1
Article
Confidence Limits and Hypothesis testing for Variances
http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco252/252conf.doc
pg. 6
Table 1
Chi-Square Distribution
http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco252/252chitb.doc
pg. 7
Table 2
F Distribution
http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco252/ftable1a.doc
http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco252/ftable2.doc
pg. 17
Table 3
Formulas for Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Tests
http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco252/252form.doc
pg. 19
Table 4
Critical Values of r in the Runs Test
http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco252/252runstable.doc
pg. 20
Table 5
Simplified Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test for Two Independent Samples
http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco252/252Wilcoxonpval.doc
pg. 22
Table 6
Critical Values of the Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test for Two Independent Samples
http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco252/252Wilcoxontable.doc
pg. 23
Table 7
Critical Values for the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Sum Test for two Matched
Samples http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco252/252wsignedr.doc
pg. 24
Table 8
Table of p-values Associated with Values of  F2 in the Friedman Two-Way
Analysis of Variance by Ranks
http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco252/252fried.doc
pg. 25
Table 9
Table of p-values for the Kruskal-Wallis Test Statistic for Three Samples for
One-Way Analysis of Variance by Ranks
http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco252/252KWtest.doc
pg. 27
Table 10
Critical Values of for the Kolmogorov-Smirnov One-Sample Test for
Goodness of Fit
http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco252/252KStest.doc
pg. 27
Table 11
Critical Values for the Lilliefors Test for Normality
http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco252/252KStest.doc
(Note: Same page as Table 10)
pg. 28
Table 12
Critical Values of s in the Kendall Test For Concordance
http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco252/252KenSp.doc
pg. 28
Table 13
Critical Values of the Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient
http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco252/252KenSp.doc
(Note: Same page as Table 12)
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pg. 29
Table 14
Poisson Distribution
http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco252/ptable.doc
pg. 39
Table 15
Cumulative Binomial Distribution
http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco252/bintabl1.doc
pg. 47
Table 16
Confidence Intervals for Binomial Sampling
ConfidenceIntervalsBinominalDistribution.pdf
pg. 48
Table 17
Standard Normal Distribution
http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco252/normtab1.doc
pg. 49
Table 18
Values of the t Distribution
http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco252/ttable1.doc
pg. 51
Table 19
What Method Should I Use?
http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco252/WhatMethodShouldIUse.pdf
pg. 52
Table 20
Formulas for Descriptive Statistics
http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco251/251form.doc
pg. 54
Table 21
Critical Values of the Studentized Range Statistic q
http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco252/252qtable1.doc
pg. 58
Article
Formulas For Functions of Random Variables
http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco252/251var2.doc
pg. 68
ECO 251 Problems
http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco251/251probl.doc
pg. 78
ECO 252 Problems
http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco252/252probl.doc
pg. 86
ECO 251 - Things That You Should Never Do on a Statistics Exam (or
Anywhere Else) http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco251/251thngs.doc
pg. 87
ECO 252 - Things That You Should Never Do on a Statistics Exam (or
Anywhere Else) http://courses.wcupa.edu/rbove/eco252/252thngs.doc
REFERENCES
William H. Beyer, ed., CRC Standard Probability and Statistics Tables and Formulae, CRC Press,
1991.
Paul Molin and Hervé Abdi, “New Table and Numerical Approximations for Kolmogorov-Smirnov/
Lilliefors/VanSoest Normality Test.” www.utd.edu/~herve/MolinAbdi1998-LillieforsTechReport.pdf.
David J. Sheskin, Handbook of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistical Procedures, CRC Press,
1997.
Sidney Siegel, Nonparametric Statistics: for the Behavioral Sciences, McGraw - Hill, 1956.
{F1} {F2} {poiss}{chiSq}{bin}{ttable} {KenSp} {Wpval} {WCV} {runs} {wsignedr} {fried} {KW}
{KS} {norm}