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SYLLABUS
GB 210 Spring 2010
Note: This class will introduce participants to the remote symposium software Centra, to be
used for office hours, replaying (if needed) of classes (which are recorded by the software) and
emergencies such as illnesses and storms. Details will be provided at the first class meeting.
Please note also that each session listed below consists of two class meetings. Excel and SPSS
will be used interactively in class so participants should bring their laptop to class.
Professor:
Dominique Haughton
Office: 380 Morison Hall; phone 781-891-2822
e-mail: [email protected]
Classes:
Mondays, Wednesdays
Lindsay 26A
3:35 – 4:50
Office Hours: On Centra, schedule to be determined
Text:
Doane and Seward, Essential Statistics in Business & Economics,
McGraw-Hill/ Irwin, to be discussed at first meeting
Statistics, http://hawkeslearning.com/ (instructions in class)
Software:
Bentley has a site license to SPSS which allows you to install your software on
your own computer. Instructions in class on how to install.
Description: This is a first course in statistics primarily for business majors. The course provides
an introduction in the fundamental principles and methods of classical statistics
and probability. Topics include data analysis, probability models and random
variables, statistical estimation including confidence intervals and tests of
hypothesis. The use of Excel for analyzing qualitative and quantitative data sets
will be integrated throughout the course material, and participants will become
proficient in the statistical package SPSS.
Assessment: The student’s grade will be determined on the basis of Hawkes Statistics
certificates (30%), Homework assignments (15%), Class participation (30%) and a
Final Exam (20%), Centra proficiency (5%).
Honor Code: The honor code adopted by students at Bentley states that students are responsible
for their own conduct and that of their peers. Cheating is neither done nor
tolerated. For homeworks, sharing ideas with others in and out class is expected.
Direct copying of the work of others in or out of class, copying from other
student’s papers or from any source during an examination is cheating. For more
information Student Handbook:
http://ecampus.bentley.edu/shandbook/Integrity/Student_Responsibilities_and_Rig
hts.cfm
Schedule
Session
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
Topic
Introduction, populations, samples, sampling,
graphical descriptive data analysis
Numerical descriptive data analysis
Probability concepts, conditional probability
Discrete distributions, Binomial distribution
Continuous distributions, normal distribution
Normal distributions, continued
Sampling distributions
Confidence intervals
Confidence intervals
Hypothesis testing
Hypothesis testing
Regression analysis
Regression analysis
Regression analysis
Final exam
Chapter/Section
Chapters 1-3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 8
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 9
Chapter 12
Chapter 12,13
Chapter 13