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DISC 6360
Statistical Methods for Business

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Important Announcement
DISC 6360, Section 00368,
Spring 2001

This section will be taught as a regular section (not as an internet course) by
Dr. Archer McWhorter, Jr.
(email: AMcWhorter@uh.edu).
It will meet every Tuesday from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.

Note: The Spring 2001 schedule lists this section as "conducted primarily via the internet" with Dr. Peixoto as the instructor. However, conditions have changed and Dr. Peixoto will not teach this section.

Reason for the change: Starting January 1, 2001, Dr. Peixoto will take a one-year leave of absence from UH to work for the Boeing Co. in Seattle.

	Class pictures are ready!!! (Summer IV 2000)

Excel WorkBook for z and t
p-values, table values, confidence intervals

Click on
http://www.cba.uh.edu/~peixoto/DISC6360/pvalues.xls
and follow the instructions on the workbook. This is a "live" workbook to be used interactively.

Excel WorkBook for
The Light Bulb Experiment
(Note posted Aug. 1, 2000)

We are currently discussing "The Light Bulb Experiment" in class. This is explained in Handout 7 in the yellow packet, which is based on MINITAB.

I have prepared an Excel equivalent of Handout 7. You can find it in
http://www.cba.uh.edu/~peixoto/DISC6360/Hout7.xls

This is a "live" spreadsheet. To study it, you need more than just printing it; you need to experiment with it.

Study the formulas in sky blue cells. Pay particular attention to the formulas used to obtain table values. (I had a lot of trouble figuring out how to get the correct table values. However, I think I finally did it right and hopefully there are no errors now. All the table values and results coincide with those reported by MINITAB. If you find any errors, please report them to me.)

Experiment changing some of the following parameters:

• confidence level;
• sigma;
• level of significance;
• hypothesized value.

Also, note that the workbook has two worksheets:

• "Main", and
• "Data".

Study both.

Syllabus, Summer IV 2000

You may find the syllabus for the course in either

• HTM format (easier to link to other pages, but looks different from the one given out in class), or
• PDF format (easier to print, identical to the one given out in class)

You need the Adobe Acrobat Reader (a free program) in order to read PDF files. If this reader program is not already installed in your computer, you can download it (for free) from
http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html
(Follow the instructions on this Adobe web site. It takes only a few minutes to download and install.)

Adobe Acrobat Reader is available in every PC in the RICS laboratory.

Objectives and Tentative Course Outline:

• in HTM format
• in Adobe Acrobat .PDF format

Reading Assignments from Textbook

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Homework Set 1 (Summer IV 2000)

Read "Some Properties of The Sample Mean, Variance, and Related Statistics". This handout is a useful study material for summation notation and calculation of sample means, variances, and other statistics. It complements and expands the exercises of Homework Set 1.

Objectives and Tentative Course Outline (updated 26 August 1999)
Download data sets (updated February 2, 2000)
Running Minitab
Some Properties of The Sample Mean, Variance, and Related Statistics
Guidelines for assigning letter grades
Excel for "The Light Bulb Experiment" (Handout 7)

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Class Pictures, Fall 1999
Class pictures: DISC 6360, Summer IV 1999
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