1. Required Textbook: Grobner, Shannon, Fry, Smith. Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach. 8th Edition.
ISBN: 978-0-13-612101-5. Available in print and electronic format.
2. Required software: Excel, R, MikTex (R and MikTex are available for free from a number of download mirrors).
Optional software: SAS, STATA.
3. Proposed course structure:
Hours
Topics and Events
Readin
Assignments
gs
1.5
Introductions
Chapter
Content Homework 1
The Where, Why, and How of data
1
collection
1.5
Describing your data
Chapter
Content Homework 2
Intro to LaTex
2
1.5
1.5
1.5
1.5
1
Describing data using numerical
Chapter
measures, correlational analysis,
3
contingency
Intro to R
Introduction to probability, random Chapter
variables, distribution and density
4
functions
Discrete probability distributions Chapter
5
Continuous probability
Chapter
distributions
6
Introduction to Sampling
Chapter
Distributions
7
Content Homework 3
Content homework 4
Content homework 5
Content homework 6
Content homework 7
1
3
3
3
Estimating Single Population
Parameters
Introduction to Hypothesis Testing
Chapter
8
Chapter
9
Introduction to Linear Regression Chapter
and Correlation Analysis
14
Multiple Regression Analysis and Chapter
Model Building
15
Course Deliverable: Take-home exam
Content Homework 8
Content Homework 9
Content Homework 10