TERM:  Fall 2009

COURSE #: DECS-433

SECTION:  61, 62

COURSE NAME:  Decision Making under Uncertainty

INSTRUCTOR:  Rakesh Vohra

CASEPACK - YES or NO?:  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  No

IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY – YES OR NO?:  Yes

1.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?:  Optional

AUTHOR: :  Anderson, David R., Sweeney, Denis J., and Williams, Thomas A.

PUBLISHER: Thomson, South-Western

TITLE: :  Statistics for Business and Economics

ED./DATE:  9e / 2005

2.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?: Optional (lighthearted approach)

AUTHOR: Gonick, Larry and Smith, Woollcott

PUBLISHER: HarperCollins

TITLE: The Cartoon Guide to Statistics

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TERM:  Fall 2009

COURSE #: DECS-433

SECTION:  63, 64

COURSE NAME:  Decision Making under Uncertainty

INSTRUCTOR:  Nabil Al-Najjar

CASEPACK - YES or NO?:  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  No

IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY – YES OR NO?:  Yes

1.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?:  No

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TERM:  Fall 2009

COURSE #: DECS-433

SECTION:  65, 66

COURSE NAME:  Decision Making under Uncertainty

INSTRUCTOR:  Florian Herold

CASEPACK - YES or NO?:  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  No

IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY – YES OR NO?:  Yes

1.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?:  Optional

AUTHOR: :  Anderson, David R., Sweeney, Denis J., and Williams, Thomas A.

PUBLISHER: Thomson, South-Western

TITLE: :  Statistics for Business and Economics

ED./DATE:  9e / 2005

2.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?: Optional (lighthearted approach)

AUTHOR: Gonick, Larry and Smith, Woollcott

PUBLISHER: HarperCollins

TITLE: The Cartoon Guide to Statistics

ED./DATE:

TERM: Fall 2009

COURSE #: DECS 434

SECTION:  91

COURSE NAME: Stat Methods for Managerial Decisions

INSTRUCTOR: Eran Shmaya

CASEPACK - YES or NO?:  No

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Read Chapter 1 of the textbook; pay special attention to the following concepts: normal distribution, t-distribution, the Excel functions NORMSDIST, NORMSINV, TDIST, and TINV, the sampling distributions of means and proportions, confidence intervals for sample means and sample proportions. A syllabus, KStat program and data files referred to in the text may be downloaded from the course Blackboard site.

IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY – YES OR NO?:  NO

1.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?: REQUIRED

AUTHOR: Klibanoff, Sandroni, Moselle, Saraniti

PUBLISHER: Thomson South-Western

TITLE: Managerial Statistics: A Case-Based Approach
ISBN: 0-324-22645-4

ED./DATE: 1st ed./2005

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