James Murray

BUS 735: Business Decision Making and Research

Fall 2011

Due on Wednesday, Oct 26: Take Home Exam 1, Datasets: leisurehospitality.xls, moving.sav

Due on Friday, December 16 at 9:00pm: Take Home Exam 2, Dataset: salesrevenue.xls

Due on Wednesday, September 28: Chapter 14, problems 7 and 8, Spreadsheet

Due on Wednesday, October 5: Homework Assignment on Forecasting, Dataset: bondstock.xls

Due on Wednesday, October 26:
Homework Assignment on Univariate and Bivariate Statistics, Dataset: eurointernet.sav

Due on Wednesday, November 2:
Homework Assignment on Logistic Regression, Dataset: Job Satisfaction.sav

Due on Wednesday, November 9:
Homework Assignment on ANOVA, Dataset: cex.sav

Due on Wednesday, November 16:
Homework Assignment on RANOVA

Wednesday, September 7: Random Variables and Probability, Dataset: appliances.xls
Wednesday, October 5: Forecasting Group Exercise, Dataset: wiearnings.xls
Wednesday, October 19: Quiz: Central Limit Theorem
Wednesday, October 19: Quiz: Univariate and Bivariate Statistics, Dataset: hourlyearning.sav
Wednesday, October 26: In-class exercise: Regression Analysis, Dataset: house.sav
Wednesday, October 26: In-class exercise: Logistic Regression, Dataset: Well-Being.sav

Week 1, Wednesday, September 7: Introduction to Probability and Random Variables
Slides, Printer Friendly

Week 2, Wednesday, September 14: Decision Analysis
Slides, Printer Friendly

Week 3, Wednesday, September 21: Simulation
Slides, Printer Friendly

Week 4, Wednesday, September 28: Forecasting
Slides, Printer Friendly, Dataset: wimanufactoring.xlsx

Week 5, Wednesday, October 5: Univariate and Bivariate Statistics
Slides, Printer Friendly, SPSS Handout,
SPSS Datasets: eduspending.sav, econoutlook.sav, gradeschool.sav, publicexp.sav.

Week 7, Wednesday, October 19: Regression Analysis
Slides, Printer Friendly, SPSS Handout,
SPSS Datasets: hotel.sav, publicexp.sav.

Week 8, Wednesday, October 26: Logistic Regression (ANOVA)
Slides, Printer Friendly,
SPSS Dataset: Well-Being.sav.

Week 9, Wednesday, November 2: One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
Slides, Printer Friendly,
SPSS Dataset: crime.sav.

Week 10, Wednesday, November 9: Multi-Way ANOVA, Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA), Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance (RANOVA)
Slides, Printer Friendly,
SPSS Handouts: Two-Way ANOVA / ANCOVA, RANOVA.
SPSS Dataset: Job Satisfaction.sav.

Week 11, Wednesday, November 16: Linear Programming
Slides, Printer Friendly (I will hand out the printer friendly version in class).

Week 12, Wednesday, November 30: Transportation / Assignment Models
Slides [pdf], Printer Friendly [pdf] (I will hand out the printer friendly version in class).

Week 13, Wednesday, December 7: Network Models
Slides [pdf].