251-2links 4/12/05 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 251-2links 4/12/05 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) 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 (Note: not available on website) 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? (Note: not available on website) 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. David J. Sheskin, Handbook of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistical Procedures, CRC Press, 1997. Sidney Siegel, Nonparametric Statistics: for the Behavioral Sciences, McGraw - Hill, 1956.