TERM:  FALL 2008

COURSE #:  434

SECTION:  71/72/91

COURSE NAME: Statistical Methods For Management Decisions 

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, confidence intervals for sample means. A syllabus, KStat program and data files referred to in the text may be downloaded from the course Blackboard site.

INSTRUCTOR:  Wioletta Dziuda

CASEPACK - YES or NO?:    NO

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

1.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?:    Required

AUTHOR: Klibanoff, Sandroni, Moselle, Saraniti

PUBLISHER: Thompson South-Western

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

ED./DATE:  1st Edition/2006

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