TERM: Winter 2004/2005

COURSE #: DECS 433

SECTION: 71&72

COURSE NAME: Mathematical Methods for Management Decisions

INSTRUCTOR: Bob Maher

CASEPACK - YES or NO?:  Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:

Optional first assignment:  If you have a few spare moments, take some time to skim through the course packet, read a few chapters of the ‘How To’ book (fun and easy),  and get the stats package up and running in Excel.  I will stay as late as necessary after the first lecture to get everyone up and running in Excel. 

IS ATTENDANCE AT FIRST CLASS MANDATORY – YES OR NO?:  Yes,  unless my written (email) permission is obtained.

1.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?: Recommended

Either the eighth or ninth edition of

Note that  the eighth edition can be found used for about 1/6 the price of the ninth.

ISBN for ninth (note that I have seen a few others listed):   032420082X  (from amazon.com)

AUTHOR: David Ray Anderson,  Thomas A. Williams,  Dennis J. Sweeney  

PUBLISHER: South-Western College Pub  (from Amazon.com)

TITLE: Statistics for Business and Economics

ED./DATE:  Eighth or ninth.

2.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?: Required. 

AUTHOR: Huff, Darrell

PUBLISHER: W.W. Norton & Company (New York)

TITLE:  How to Lie With Statistics.

ED./DATE:  1993 paperback edition.

ISBN: 0-393-31072-8 

TERM: Winter 2004/2005

COURSE #:  

DECS 434

SECTION:  71

COURSE NAME: Stat Methods for Managerial Decisions

INSTRUCTOR:  Peter Klibanoff

CASEPACK - YES or NO?:  YES.

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:

Read chapters 1 and 2 of the DECS 434 case packet; review 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.

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

1.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?:  none

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2.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?:  none

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TERM: Winter 2004/2005

COURSE #:  

DECS 434

SECTION:   72

COURSE NAME: Stat Methods for Managerial Decisions

INSTRUCTOR:  Karl Schmedders

CASEPACK - YES or NO?:  YES.

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:

Read chapters 1 and 2 of the DECS 434 case packet; review 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.

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

1.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?:  none

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TERM: Winter 2004/2005

COURSE #: DECS-450

SECTION:  71

COURSE NAME: Decision Analysis

INSTRUCTOR:  McKeon / Judd

CASEPACK - YES or NO?: Yes

FIRST ASSIGNMENT:  None

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

1.  TEXT - REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED?: None, only course packet

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