Professor JOEL OWEN
C22.0001

Statistics for Business Control

Fall 2003

office: MEC room 8-63

tel: 212-998-0446

fax: 212-995-4003

e-mail: jowen@stern.nyu.edu

office hours: To be announced

class meetings: Tuesday and Thursday from 3:30 until 4:45

TA: To be announced

text: Statistics for Business and Economics, 8th edition, by McClave, Benson, and Sincich, Prentice Hall Publishers, 2001.

computer package: MINITAB (Student edition of Minitab is bundled with the textbook.)

grading:

a. There will be a midterm examination in the 8th week given in class.

b. There will be a final examination during the exam period.

c. There will be weekly assignments to be handed in.

d. The final grade will combine your performance as follows: 40% is based on the midterm grade, 45% is based on the final grade and 15% is based on the submission of the weekly assignments.

                                                                                SYLLABUS
 

Data: Gathering, Visualizing and Crunching, Chapter 1-2.

Basics of Probability, Chapter 3.

Discrete Probability Models, Chapter 4.

Continuous Probability Models, Chapter 5.

                                                               MIDTERM EXAMINATION

Sampling Distributions, Chapter 6.

Estimation Using Confidence Intervals, Chapter 7

Principals and Applications of Hypothesis Testing, Chapter 8.

Introduction toSimple Linear Regression, Chapter 10 (time permitting).