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Course: C22.0103.02 - Statistics for Business Control and Regression and Forecasting Models Semester: Fall 2001 Class Hours: MonWedThur 9:30-10:45 AM Class Room: T - UC57 Instructor: Prof. Ernest Kurnow Email: ekurnow@stern.nyu.edu Office Hours: MonWedThur 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM and by appointment Office: 864 KMEC Tel: (212) 998 - 0468  Teaching Assistant: Alice Leung Email: al626@stern.nyu.edu

Textbook

• Terry Sinich, Business Statistics by Example (5th ed) Prentice Hall
• Class Notes (will be distributed in class)

Course Outline, Reading and Homework Assignments
 

Assignment	Topic	Read	Problems
1	Graphic Methods	Ch. 2	2/26, 34, 36, 46
2	Data Analysis - Univariate	Ch. 3	3/12, 27, 43, 60, 65
3	Intro. to Probability	Ch. 4	4/51, 56, 60(a,b), 61, 63, 68, 69
4	Discrete Prob. Distributions	Ch. 5.1-5.4	5/21, 28, 32, 74, 76
5		Ch. 5.5-5.6	5/40, 43, 54
6	Continuous Prob.  Distributions	Ch. 6.1-6.4	6/10, 13, 15, 18, 51, 54, 63
7	Sampling	Ch. 7
8	Estimation	Ch. 8.8, 8.2-8.4	8/77, 81, 82; 8/9, 12, 14, 33, 37
9	Confidence Intervals	Ch. 8.5-8.7, 9.1-9.6	8/45, 50, 57, 67
10	Hypothesis  Testing	Ch. 11.1-11.3	11/8, 12, 14, 20, 24
11		Ch. 11.4-11.6	11/34, 39, 47, 58
12	Simple Regression	pp. 610 - end of Ch.12	Problems  will be assigned  in class
13	Multiple Regression	Ch. 13 and
14	Forecasting	Ch. 16.6-16.10

GRADING

* material in Ch. 10 will be merged with discussion of Ch. 11 in class.