Business Statistics 41000

SPRING 2008

Course information

· Instructor / Course Syllabus / TA sessions / Textbook

Classroom material

· Outline

· Lecture1.pdf (handouts format, summary)

· Lecture2.pdf (handouts format, summary)

· Lecture3.pdf (handouts format, summary)

· Lecture4.pdf (handouts format, summary)

· Lecture5.pdf (handouts format)

· Lecture6.pdf (handouts format)

· Lecture7.pdf (handouts format)

· Lecture8.pdf (handouts format)

Additional classroom material

· Skewness/kurtosis: revisiting volume data

· International stock market data

· Dowjones data (excel file)

· Dowjones components: yearly summaries

· Dowjones components: monthly summaries

· Excel tutorial (houseprice.xls)

Homework assignment

· Homework 1 (stockmarket.xls, yahoofinance.xls) (Solution)

· Homework 2 (Solution)

· Homework 3 (Solution)

· Homework 4 (opinion.xls) (Solution)

· Homework 5 (usedcars.xls) (Solution)

Additional problems

· Set 1: Lectures 1 and 2 (Solution)

· Set 2: Lectures 3 (Solution)

· Confidence intervals and hypothesis testing

· Linear regression

· Final exam 2007

· Worked example on linear regression (sexbias.xls)

Review sessions

· Tuesday, 5/27/08, 6:00PM - 9:00PM, Room 204

· Saturday, 5/31/08, 1:00PM - 4:00PM, Lecture Hall 408

· Saturday, 6/7/08, 9:00AM - 12:00PM Room 303

· Saturday, 6/7/08, 1:00PM - 4:00PM, Room 303

Midterm exam: (Solution)

Review session: Saturday, April 26^th , 9:30am – 11:30am (Room 300)

Monday, April 28^th , 6:30pm – 9pm (41000-81)

Tuesday, April 29^th, 6:30pm – 9pm (41000-82)

Final exam: (Solution)

Monday, June 9^th, 6:30pm-9:30pm (41000-81)

Tuesday, June 10^th, 6:30pm-9:30pm (41000-82)

Old exams

· Midterm exam – SPRING 2006

· Final exam – SPRING 2006