STA 218 S 2007

Statistics for Management

University of Toronto at Mississauga, Winter 2007

Lecture Tuesday 11:10am-12:00pm in CC 2150, and Thursday 11:10am-1:00pm in KN137

Tutorials Thursday 9:10am-10:00am in NE236 and 10:10am-11:00am in NE286

Facilitated study group(s) with Ramya: Wednesday, 4-5 p.m. in 1161 South Building, and 5-6 p.m. in 1143 South Building.

This page is under construction, and will be updated frequently throughout the course.

Lennon's Office Hours on Tuesday April 17 are changed from 10-12 to 11-1

Office Hours and Review Sessions for the Final Exam

• Ramya: Wednesday Apr 11, 4-6pm SB1161 and Thursday Apr 12, 10-1 SB1157. You may come for part or all of these sessions; you need not stay the full 2 or 3 hours.
• Lennon: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. on Tuesday April 17 in CCIT3133. That's the day before the exam.
• Jerry: Monday April 16th 10-12, Wednesday April 18th 10-12 and 2-3 in 4059c South Building.

Some comments and hints for the final are posted.

You should check your marks on the quizzes, computer assignmets and midterm to make sure we have it right. Please see Jerry if there is a problem.

I have found out the location of the uncollected quizzes and assignments. On Monday April 16th, before my office hours, I will be trying to get security to let me into the room where the quizzes are. I may be a few minutes late for the (10 am) start of my office hours.

• Course Outline
• Finite Population Handout: Interval Estimation of Means, Proportions and Population Totals.
• Six Hypothesis Tests: Overheads presented in class
• Hypothesis Test Examples: Overheads presented in class
• Assignments for Quizzes
  1. Assignment 1: Quiz on Thurs Jan. 18 at the beginning of class.
  2. Assignment 2: Quiz on Thurs Jan. 25 at the beginning of class.
  3. Assignment 3: Quiz on Thurs Feb, 1 at the beginning of class.
  4. Assignment 4: Quiz on Thurs Feb, 8 at the beginning of class.
  5. Assignment 5: Quiz on Thurs Feb, 15 at the beginning of class.
  6. Midterm Assignment: Some questions on the sampling distribution of a sample proportion.
  7. Assignment for Quiz 6: Quiz on Thurs March 8th at the beginning of class.
  8. Assignment for Quiz 7: Quiz on Thurs March 15th at the beginning of class.
  9. Assignment for Quiz 8: Quiz on Thurs March 22nd at the beginning of class.
  10. Assignment for Quiz 9: Quiz on Thurs March 29th at the beginning of class.
  11. Assignment for Quiz 10: Quiz on Thurs April 5th at the beginning of class.
• Homework solutions, from Lennon's website. These are posted late in the day on Tuesday.
• Computer Assignments
  1. Computer Assignment 1: Due on Thurs Jan. 18 at the beginning of class.
  2. Computer Assignment 2: Due on Thurs Jan. 25 at the beginning of class.
  3. Computer Assignment 3: Due on Thurs Feb 8; you'll hand it in with your quiz.
  4. Computer Assignment 4: Due on Thurs March 8; you'll hand it in with your quiz.
  5. Computer Assignment 5: Due Tuesday April 10th in Lecture
• Excel Spreadsheets from lecture: Some of these have a second sheet called "Instructions" containing verbal directions. And note that you can toggle back and forth between viewing numbers and viewing formulas by holding down the Control key and tapping the single left quote (` below esc). This way you can see what formulas I put in. It is also useful when you have to print your formulas as part of an assignment that you hand in.
  • Bar and Pie Charts for restaurant ownership. Also illustrates some spreadsheet calculations.
  • Line Chart for Canadian population data. Also illustrates some spreadsheet calculations.
  • Sample measures of central tendency and variability, including some functions not mentioned in class.
  • Dice.xls Computation of the expected value and (population) variance when you roll 2 fair dice and x = the sum of the numbers showing.
  • CostBenefit.xls Expected profit from making a sales call to Company A versus B (see lecture notes from Jan 30th).
  • ugrad.xls Estimating a proportion from a stratified random sample.
  • TotalDishes.xls Estimating a total from a stratified random sample.
  • Ztest.xls Large-sample test for difference between means: Two independent groups.