The formal content of this course is statistics: “the art and science of collecting, analyzing, presenting, and interpreting data.”[Anderson, Sweeney, Williams p. 3]. In particular, we will focus on statistical methods and concepts important for business and economic decision-making, applying and extending the basic ideas and techniques studied in your first statistics course. You will learn to
1. Select appropriate statistical procedures for a given situation, identifying the relevant information
2. Carry out appropriate statistical calculations to implement the procedures with or without the use of statistical software
3. Interpret and explain the conclusions reached and appropriate actions to be taken.
In addtion, this course will develop your skills in working with a team, in communicating your work, and in independent learning through the use of structured learning teams [see below].
This page will be occasionally updated to provide access to documents for the course, but most access will be through the Blackboard site (Students enrolled in class login with own ID & password - others may login as "guest" with password "guest" but will not have access to all feaures)
For dates, course requirements, for the current/most recent semester semester (currently Fall 2008) see the Current Syllabus
Here is a Current list of assignments
Other pages with resources for the course:
Math Department Honesty Policy
Minitab manual: Describes use of the statistical package for this course [Minitab]
Calculators: Describes use of popular calculators for statistical calculations
Maintained by cpeltier@saintmarys.edu
Last update 7/22/2008