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BUS 735: Business Decision Making and Research

Fall 2013

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

Syllabus (PDF)

Projects

Annotated Bibliography including six sources due on Monday, November 10.

Exams

Take Home Exam 1, Answer Key, Datasets: wage1D.sav, cex.sav, LoanApplications.sav.
In-class Exam 1, Answer Key, Datasets: TeachingRatings.sav, salesrev.sav, cps.sav.

Take Home Exam 2 Dataset: salesrev.sav.

Module 9: Transportation Models

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Homework assignment: Pages 251-266, problems 13, 14, 21, 48.

Module 8: Linear Programming

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Homework assignment: End of Chapter 4 (Taylor text) problems 7, 8, 26, 27

Module 7: Decision Analysis

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In-class Exercise

Module 6: Introduction to Probability

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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

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SPSS Handout for RANOVA, Dataset: Job Satisfaction.sav.
In-class Exercise for Monday, October 27. Dataset: comptraining.sav.

Module 4: Analysis of Variance / Covariance

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SPSS Handout for Multi-Way ANOVA and ANCOVA, Dataset: Job Satisfaction.sav.
Homework Assignment due Monday, October 20. Dataset: cex.sav.

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

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In-class Exercise for Monday, October 6. Dataset: Job Satisfaction.sav.
Homework assignment due Monday, October 13. Dataset: mroz.sav.

Module 2: Correlation, Comovement, and Regression Analysis

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SPSS Datasets: publicexp.sav, hotel.sav.

In-class Exercise, Dataset: house.sav

Homework assignment. Deadline: Monday, September 29. Datasets: moving_1.sav.

Module 1: Univariate and Bivariate Statistics

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SPSS Datasets: eduspending.sav, econoutlook.sav, gradeschool.sav, publicexp.sav, Job Satisfaction.sav.

In-class Exercise, Dataset: electricity.sav

Homework assignment. Deadline: Monday, September 22. Datasets: eurointernet.sav, training.sav.