Bus 201-Data Collection and Analysis                                                  Summer 2005

 

Mari Yetimyan

Office:  BT 756     Office Phone:  (408) 924-3444     Fax:  (408) 924-3445

E-mail:  yetimyan_m@cob.sjsu.edu     Web Page:  www.cob.sjsu.edu/yetimy_m

Office Hours:  Before class

 

Course Description:  Provides the knowledge and ability to gather and analyze data for applied uses, including sampling and collection of data, presentation of data, statistical inference and hypothesis testing, correlation and regression, and forecasting.  An applied project is required; Excel is the basic analytical tool.

 

Textbook:  Anderson, Sweeney, Williams, Statistics for Business and Economics,

9th ed., South-Western College, 2005.

Excel  to be purchased at the bookstore.

 

Evaluation:  Evaluation will be based on the following:

Two Exams                                          25% each

Comprehensive Final Exam                   35%

Homework                                             5% 

Project                                                 10%

 

Roughly, the breakdown of grades will be

90-100 A         80-89.9 B        70-79.9 C        60-69.9 D        Below 60 F

Plus (+) and minus (-) designations for grades will be indicated in class.

 

Exams are closed-book and closed-notes with one 8.5 x 11 sheet (both sides) of notes allowed for each exam.

 

A list of homework problems and cases will be distributed in class.

 

An approximately four-page project is due on the day of final exam.  You are expected to apply the concepts learned in class to your real-life, preferably work-related problems.  Please use whatever format you wish to use.  Sample projects from previous semesters can be made available in the office with prior notification.

 

Important dates 

June 6                         First day of instruction

June 15                       Exam 1

June 27                       Exam 2

July 4                          Independence Day-no class

July 13                        Final Exam 1800-2015


Tentative Course Outline

Chapter 1         Data and Statistics and Chapter 7-7.2 Simple Random Sampling and 7.8

                        Other Sampling Methods

Chapter 2         Descriptive Statistics:  Tabular and Graphical Presentations

Chapter 3         Descriptive Statistics:  Numerical Methods

Chapter 4         Introduction to Probability

Chapter 21       Decision Analysis

Chapter 5         Discrete Probability Distributions-5.1, 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4

Chapter 6         Continuous Probability Distributions-6.2 and 6.3

Chapter 7         Sampling and Sampling Distributions

Chapter 8         Interval Estimation

Chapter 9         Hypothesis Testing

Chapter 14       Simple Linear Regression         

Chapter 15       Multiple Regression

 


 

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