Text:  Statistics for Business and Economics by James T. McClave, P. George Benson and Terry Sincich
           (Ninth Edition)

Course Description: Statistics can be considered a tool to aid a researcher in organizing and summarizing data,
to make inferences about this data and to clearly and meaningfully communicate any findings to others. In order to
accomplish some of this we will be looking at graphical descriptions of data as well as numerical descriptions.
We will talk about probabilities and how to work with discrete and continuous random variables. Finally we
will look at sampling distributions and hypothesis testing.

Date     Chapters                                    Date    Chapters
1/4        1,2.1-2.3                                      1/22     5.5,5.6, 6 and Quiz 6
1/8        2.4-2.6 and Quiz 1                       1/23     7 and Quiz 7
1/9        3.1-3.5 and Quiz 2                       1/25     8.1-8.4 and Quiz 8
1/11      3.6-4.3 and Quiz 3                       1/29     8.5,9.1,9.5 and Quiz 9
1/15      No Class                                     1/30     Quiz 10
1/16      4.4-4.6 and Quiz 4                       2/1       Wrap up
1/18      5.1-5.4 and Quiz 5
 

Test Topics:
 

Quiz 1   This quiz will cover samples, populations types of data and graphical descriptions of data
              such as bar charts, pie charts, stem and leaf display and histograms.
Quiz 2   This quiz will cover numerical descriptive measures such as the mean, median, mode, range,
              variance and standard deviation. It will also cover the Chabychev’s and the empirical rules.
Quiz 3   This quiz will cover some probability and conditional probability.
Quiz 4   This quiz will cover independence, Bayes’ Rule, discrete random variables and expected value.
Quiz 5    This quiz qill cover discrete random variables such as the Binomial, Poisson, Hypergeometric and
               Geometric Random Variables.
Quiz 6    This quiz will cover continuous random variables such as the Uniform and Normal
Quiz 7    This quiz will cover approximating a Binomial distribution with the Normal distribution. It will cover
               the Exponential distribution and sampling distributions.
Quiz 8    This quiz will cover confidence intervals.
Quiz 9     This quiz will cover hypothesis testing for large and small samples.
Quiz 10   This quiz will cover hypothesis tests for proportions and some two sample confidence intervals and
                hypothesis tests.

Grading Policy:

 There will be 10 quizzes an an 11th quiz grade will come from labs that you will be doing (probably 3)
using Excel. The best ten of these grades will count towards your final grade

                                     A     93% and above            C        73-76%
                                     A-    90-92%                         C-       70-72%
                                     B+   87-89%                         D+      67-69%
                                     B     83-86%                          D        63-66%
                                     B-    80-82%                          D-       60-62%
                                     C+   77-79%                          F         Below 60%
 

Important Dates to Remember:

January 8     Last day to register or to add courses.
January 15    No class-- Martin Luther King holiday
January 18   Last day to change registration or to withdraw from courses without academic penalty

Class Guidelines:

1. You will not be expected to memorize statistical formulas, only to apply them. You may therefore put statistical
    formulas on index cards. You may put the formula and what the variables stand for. You may not  put examples
   of how to use the formulas on your index cards.

2. I will inspect your index cards before the tests.

3. All work must be shown if you expect full credit for your answer. Partial credit will be given.

4. There will be no make-up quizzes without a reasonable documented excuse.

5. Homework will not be collected but we will be discussing it in class and your tests are based on these assignments.

6. You will need to use a non-graphing calculator for this course, preferably one that can handle some basic statistics functions.

7. Part of your test grade will come from computer assignments given to you to do in the Dover Lab with Excel.
    Make sure to activate youe UD e-mail accounts

Homework Problems - MATH 201

Chapter 1      15, 16, 17, 19, 21, 23

Chapter 2      1, 3, 5a, 8, 16, 17,18ab, 20, 21, 23, 30abd, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 41, 42, 56, 57, 59, 69, 70, 71, 73, 82, 86, 89, 90

Chapter 3      1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 15, 17, 22, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 35, 39, 41, 43, 45, 49, 57, 75, 79

Chapter 4      1, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14, 17, 19, 25, 29, 36, 39, 41, 43, 44, 59, 60, 71, 72, 75, 79

Chapter 5      1, 2, 4, 5, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 28, 29, 33, 41, 43, 54, 57, 70, 71, 72, 77

Chapter 6      1, 3, 5, 8, 9, 15, 16, 17, 21, 25

Chapter 7      1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 15, 21, 23, 24, 25, 27, 31, 35, 37, 39, 41, 52, 53, 55, 56, 59, 63

Chapter 8      9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 23, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 47, 49, 51, 54, 57, 61, 63, 67, 69

Chapter 9      2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 21, 69, 70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 77