BA 250 - Business Statistics

Resources:


See description of the Application Report below. Also note the listing of data containing sites suggested by students. Extra credit if you find another great site and we add it to this list. I've set up a table of video tutorials at the bottom of this page to make them a little easier to find. These video tutorials can also be played with sound in the SSB103 Lab (you can get earphones at the desk). Although there aren't video tutorials on everything, I hope those I have done so far will help you in recalling what we've done in class so you can apply it to the exercises.
Math Mnemonics & Statistics Ditties: Extra Credit. Contribute an original mnemonic to help remember statistics principles and procedures. See examples. Some extraordinary Resources: Data: The Data Ferret gives access to Census and CDC data fedstats,gov gives links to a large variety of government sites with statistical data The National Center for Health Statistics at CDC is a great central source on health statistics and microdata Statistics.com is an extraordinary resource for tools and data You may have a use for Math Programming and EXCEL addins at http://www.mathtools.net/ Here is a web site I have found helpful. http://www.graphpad.com/articles/interpret/principles/stat_principles.htm Here is a database I found which has survey data. www.netcraft.com/survey/reports/ EXCEL tips, tricks and tutorials: http://contextures.com/tiptech.html http://www.ozgrid.com Bud's free videotutorials

Statistics Resources on the web

includes links to excellent tutorials, movies, books, course websites, programming aids, organizations
Current edition of Chance News
Miscellaneous databases and tools
-----Some interesting statistics questions to research
Here is a good new book on Design of Questionnaires

Interactive Statistics Tutorials on the web:

Be sure to look through the Statistics course notes by Dr. Hossein Arsham at the University of Baltimore .

Free statistics workbooks to study concepts http://www.mis.coventry.ac.uk/research/discus/discus_home.html

http://pse.cs.vt.edu/SoSci/converted/Hypoth_I/activity.html

http://www.coe.ilstu.edu/phklass/eaf509/tutor.htm

http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javastat.html#TOC

Bud's sites

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http://www.umsl.edu/~rbanis/ Homepage of Dr. Bud Banis at UM-St. Louis, a portal to a variety of resources and learning experiences

Efficient Search Resources

These sites use metasearch to find what you are looking for by combining efforts of several largest search engines.

MetaCrawler websearch Utility
Dogpile
Google Search: Science & Humanities Press

Math & Statistics

Tutorials

Statistical Resources Outstanding list of resources of all sorts including books, courses, reviews, tutorials, programing aids, organizations
StatSoft Inc. This is the Statistica statistics software package site. It has an incredible online statistics book with animated pictures illustrating concepts and very in-depth treatment of introductory to advanced statistical topics.
The book is in web (html) format and is downloadable for personal use The download is over 5 megs and takes about a half-hour with a regular modem, but thereafter works a bit faster than it does over the web. this is very worthwhile!
"DAU STAT REFRESHER MODULE" A simpler online basic statistics tutorial consisting of a series of linked pages with branches treating basic statististics concepts with simple examples

McClave/Sincich Series Statistics for Business and Economics The text used in Math 105 and BA 250 has this website with downloadable data sets, problems from the book and links to sites of instructors using the book in courses. some of these sites are quite impressive and useful

CQE Pages

Certified Quality Engineer Review Excellent site offering a downloadable CQE Review Manual and an excellent selection of questions from past exams.
Quality America.com--CQE Review book and CD ROM http://www.qa-inc.com/cqe.htm
Welcome to ASQ American Society of Quality Homepage. Learn about ASQ and the certification programs
Stat-Ease, Inc., makers of Design-Expert and Design-Ease software, statistical consultants and trainers
an example of an experimaental design company's webpage, with articles on design of experiments.
CQE prep - CQE Professional Certification Training-small sample of questions as demo of osftware with database of 1200 questions.
Certistep --short online quiz (9 questions) with immediate feedback-mostly qualitative

Chance Course

The Chance Database Welcome Page
Home of the Chance Course--"Scientific American of Statistics" dedicated to promoting informed use of statistics in everyday life, and especially in understanding of news articles in the popular press. A vast treasure trove of materials from lesson plans to examples to online movies about statistics in the practical everyday world

Other interesting math-related sites

Birthday Coincidence simulation http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/reese/birthday/

Java Script Linear Algebra Interesting programming

The Fractal Microscope fun with mathematics and fractal designs

puzzles at the grey labyrinth there is an excellent treatment of the Monty Hall puzzle there.


Application Report: This needn't be a Master's thesis, but is a short statistical study on real data--not something out of the book. It can be data you gather yourself or something you find at work or on the web. The analysis must involve EXCEL tools we have used this semester to answer a real question. So it should include a test of a hypothesis, not just descriptive statistics. the report should be 2-3 pages suitable for display and discussion on the last day of class. The first page will include description of the question, some detail on how the data was obtained, interpretation of results and conclusion. Other than scanning them to see they meet those criteria, I won't scrutinize them before assigning a grade. However, if you are on a borderline, the quality of this report may make the difference.

EXCEL--Table of Video Tutorials:

These are large files (3-20 MB). Although they will download rapidly in the school system, downloading by modem at home would be impractical. You can borrow earphones to listen while playing them in SSB103 lab. Double click on the speaker down in the taskbar to remove muting and increase volume. plug the earphone into the green connector on the back of the computer. It uses a mini-stereo plug. Some machines on campus have zipdisks which would allow you to download and copy for home use if you have a zipdrive at home. Sometime in the future, when I am more set on these, they will be available on CDROM. You have permission to copy, use and distribute these for personal and nonprofit educational use.

New videos under 250video.htm

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