University of Illinois at Chicago
College of Business Administration
Department of Information & Decision Sciences
IDS 596
Independent Study in IDS: Statistics for Management
Instructor
Prof. Stanley L. Sclove
Text
David Moore and George 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
Homework
Homework A (IPS Chs 1, 2) -- on Excel spreadsheet
(due 5-Sept)
Homework B (IPS Chs 3, 4, 5)
(due 3-Oct.)
Homework C (IPS Chs 6, 7, 8, 9)
(due 31-Oct.)
Homework D (IPS Chs 10, 11, 12, 13)
(due 28-Nov.)
Recommended video series:
Against All Odds:Inside Statistics
EXTRA MATERIAL TO GO WITH VARIOUS TOPICS
Meeting #1: Tu, 22-Aug
Preface:
Statistical Thinking (and Why Managers need Statistics)
Meeting #2: 29-Aug
Direct Mail Marketing Information Systems:
ClusterAnalysis
and "The Clustering of America"
Meeting #3: 5-Sept
Stratified Sampling
Exercise
:
Instructions
Spreadsheet
Product Development via Conjoint Analysis
HTML
Meeting #5: 19-Sept
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
SomeAspects of Portfolio Analysis
Spreadsheet
Quality & Productivity Management
Notes
on the VCR program "The Deming of America"
Inference for Two-Way Tables
Correspondence Analysis BiPlot
CART: Classification and Regression Trees
Addendum:CART and AID -- Notes
Diagram-- Alpha Radials case
Study Guides:
Overview
of the MBA Statistics course
Optional Study Guide: Cobb & Cryer.
Electronic Companion to Business Statistics.
(CD ROM) Cogito, Inc., San Francisco, 1997. Available in Study Guides section of UIC Bookstore. $29.95.
Created: 5 December 1998 Updated: 16 July 2000