MBA 610 - Business Decision Analysis

Wednesday, SB 119, 6:30 - 9:10PM

Syllabus and Detailed Course Outline

Textbook (REQUIRED):

Statistics for Business and Economics and Student CD (6th Edition) (Hardcover)
by Paul Newbold (Author), William L. Carlson (Author), Betty Thorne (Author)
Hardcover: 1016 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 6 edition (February 6, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0132203847
ISBN-13: 978-0132203845

Exams:  Exam 1 (key a, key b, key c) , Exam 2 (key a , key b) , Exam 3 (key)

Equations Sheets: Sheet for Exam 1    Sheet for Exam 2  Sheet for Exam 3

Keys: Chap 8 HW KEY , Hypothesis Testing HW KEY , Chap 12 HW KEY

Data for Regression Analysis

Simple Regressions                                                            Multiple Regression

Retail Sales                   Results   (in pdf)                              Savings and Loan (p.459)        Results  (in pdf)

Dow-Jones                    Results  (in pdf)                               Power Demand (p.469)          1 Example of Results  (in pdf)

NYSE Gains and Losses    Results  (in pdf)                               Motors (p. 470)

Employee Absence         Results  (in pdf)                               Citydat (p. 486)

Data Sites:

Bureau of Labor Statistics: www.bls.gov

Data on consumer spending, consumer price level, unemployment, etc.

Federal Reserve Board:  www.federalreserve.gov

Data on money supply, exchange rates, more.

Census Bureau: www.census.gov

Population data, household data, etc.

Office of Management & Budget: www.whitehouse.gov/omb

Data on revenue, expenditures, federal gov. debt.

Department of Commerce: www.doc.gov

Data on business activity, value of shipments by industry, etc.