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University of Illinois at Chicago
College of Business Administration
Department of Information & Decision Sciences

*IDS 570*	Statistics for Management
*Instructor*	Prof. Stanley L. Sclove
*Text*	*Moore and McCabe, Introduction to the Practice of Statistics, 3rd ed.* (IPS)**

Course Homepage

Organization & Administration

Course Calendar

Syllabus

References to Textbooks, Optional Recommended Ancillary Materials; Works Cited

Errata to Text

List of Business Examples and Exercises in the Text

UIC MBA Concentration or Specialization in Statistics

DATA

Data for IPS Exercise 1.26 (for Homework A)

Credit Data Excel workbook

Buy,Gender,Age,Income Data Excel workbook

Smoking Data for Correspondence Analysis

Sugar Box Weights for SPC (for PC Lab #3, 19-Feb.)

Alpha radial tires data Excel workbook

Assets-Sales-Profits Excel workbook

Iris data Excel workbook

Heart Data Excelworkbook

Bank Wages Data Excel workbook

Expected Price Data Excel workbook

Homework

Homework A (IPS Chs 1, 2) -- on Excel spreadsheet (due 12-Feb.)

Data for IPS Exercise 1.26

Homework B (IPS Chs 3, 4, 5) (due 26-Feb.)

Homework C (IPS Chs 6, 7, 8) (due 2-April)

Homework D (IPS Chs 10 and 11) (due 23-April)

Old Quizzes

Old Quiz 1

Old Quiz 2

Old Quiz 3 Solutions to Old Quiz 3

Old Quiz 4 (Multiple Regression and Time Series)

Recommended video series:

Against All Odds: Inside Statistics

NOTES FOR SOME OF THE LECTURES

8-Jan. (in classroom) Introduction

Preface: Statistical Thinking (and Why Managers need Statistics)

Chapter 1 - Examining Data: Distributions

Notes

Leftmost Digits

29-Jan. (in classroom) IPS Ch. 3: Producing Data

Using existing data:

Direct Mail Marketing Information Systems:
ClusterAnalysis and "The Clustering of America"

Surveys: Stratified Sampling

Experiments: Product Development via Conjoint Analysis HTML

5-Feb. Computer Lab

Surveys: Stratified Sampling Exercise: Instructions Spreadsheet

Regression

Corn Yield

The "Beta" of Financial Securities Analysis

Allstate stock data

12-Feb. Meet first in L270 ECSW. Statistical Aspects of Some Financial Problems

Decision Risk Analysis
Getz Products case:

Expected Monetary Value and Decision Analysis

Spreadsheet

Introductory Notes on Financial Portfolio Analysis

Expected Return and Volatility:

Rates of Return of Two Stocks

Some Aspects of Portfolio Analysis

Spreadsheet

19-Feb. Meet first in 2417 ECSW. IPS Ch. 5: From Probability to Inference

Solution to IPS Exercise 5.7

Sec. 5.2 The Sampling Distribution of a Sample Mean

Sec. 5.3 Control Charts

Notes on SPC

Notes on Against All Odds Pgm #18 -- "The Sample Mean and Control Charts"

Notes on PC Lab #3

Sugar Box Weights for SPC (for PC Lab #3)

Notes on the VCR program "The Deming of America"

26-Feb. Meet first in PC Lab. IPS Ch. 6: Introduction to Inference Notes
12-Mar. Spring Break (no classes)
: Addendum: CART and AID -- Notes Diagram-- Alpha Radials case
26-Mar. Meet first in the PC Lab. IPS Ch. 9: Inference for Two-Way Tables: Age-by-Sport contingency table data; Lab; Correspondence Analysis BiPlot; Lab Sheet on Data Visualization and Regression; Lab Sheet on Path Analysis
9-Apr. Meet first in the PC Lab. Time Series / Forecasting: Lab Sheet on Time Series Analysis; Cement data; Notes on Forecasting; Lab Notes; One-Way ANOVA data; Expected Price Data Excel workbook; MPG data
23-Apr. Meet first in the PC Lab. More on Multiple Regression: Estimation in Unbalanced ANOVA Design; Example (IPS3, Table 2.1, p. 112, Corn Yield, by Planting Density and Year); Logistic Regression; Lab Notes Credit Data Excel workbook

NOTES FOR SOME OF THE LECTURES

CART: Classification and Regression Trees