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BUS 735: Business Decision Making and Research

Fall 2012


Instructor:
James Murray, Ph.D.
Office: 403T Wimberly Hall
Office hours: 10:00am-11:30am; Monday, Wednesday; 2:00am-3:30pm Tuesday.
Phone: 608-406-4068
E-mail: jmurray@uwlax.edu

Syllabus (PDF)


Exams
Take home exam 1 due on Wednesday, October 31 at 5:29pm.
Datasets: salesrevenue.xls, wage1D.xls cps78_85.xls.
Module 11: Transportation and Assignment Models

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Module 10: Linear Programming

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Module 9: Forecasting

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Module 8: Simulation

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Completed Excel Sheet: simulation.xlsx for Tuesday, October 30, 2012. This is for reference purposes only. You should be able to construct Excel sheets like this from scratch.

Homework assignment due on Tuesday, November 6:

  • Chapter 14 problems 7 and 8. (Simulation problems)
  • Chapter 12 problems 7, 8, 9, 18, 19. (Decision Analysis problems)


Module 7: Decision Analysis

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In-class Exercise for Tuesday, October 23, 2012.


Module 6: Introduction to Probability

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In-class Exercise for Tuesday, October 16, 2012, Dataset: appliances.xls.
Homework assignment: End of Chapter 11 (Taylor text) problems 7, 9, 11c, 13c, 19, 21, 31, 33, 37.


Module 5: Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance / Covariance

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SPSS Handout for RANOVA. Dataset: Job Satisfaction.sav.
Homework assignment due Tuesday, October 17, 2012. Dataset: cex.sav.


Module 4: Analysis of Variance / Covariance

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Quiz for Tuesday, October 2, 2012. Dataset: Job Satisfaction.sav.
SPSS Handout for Multi-Way ANOVA and ANCOVA. Dataset: Job Satisfaction.sav.
Homework assignment due Tuesday, October 9, 2012. Dataset: cex.sav.


Module 3: Logistic Regression: Regression Analysis with a Binary Dependent Variable

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In-class Exercise for Tuesday, September 25, 2012. Dataset: Job Satisfaction.sav.
Homework assignment due Tuesday, October 2, 2012. Dataset: mroz.sav.


Module 2: Correlation, Comovement, and Regression Analysis

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SPSS Datasets: hotel.sav, publicexp.sav.

Homework assignment due on Tuesday, September 25, 2012. Dataset: moving.xls.
In-class Exercise for Tuesday, September 25, 2012. Dataset: house.xls.


Module 1: Univariate and Bivariate Statistics

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In-class Exercise, Dataset: electricity.xls
SPSS Datasets: eduspending.sav, econoutlook.sav, gradeschool.sav, publicexp.sav.

Homework assignment due on Tuesday, September 18, 2012. Datasets: eurointernet.sav, training.xls.