Stat 251 – Statistical Inference for Management 1

General Information

• Instructor: Dr. John Uebersax (juebersa@calpoly.edu)
• Office hours: Tuesday/Thursday (to be decided)
• Office: Building 25, Room 111
• Course information

Text

• Sharpe, N., De Veaux, R., and Velleman, P., Business Statistics, 2nd ed., Pearson, 2011.
• Sharpe text – selections from Chapters 1 and 2 (to evaluate; do not share)
• Sharpe text (Publisher's page)

Lecture Notes

• 01 What is Statistics.doc
• 02 Variable Types & Levels of Measurement (updated).doc
• 03 Sampling.doc
• 04 Frequency Tables & Histograms.doc
• 05 Frequency Distributions & Histograms (ctd).doc
  • Cholesterol homework data.xls
• 06 Measures of Central Tendency & Disperson.doc
• 07 Box Plots, Variance and Standard Deviation.doc
• 08 Variance and Standard Deviation (ctd).doc
• Tuesday's lecture was out of sequence. For Wednesday, Jan. 29, we will cover Lecture Notes 07, Section 2 ("Variance and Standard Deviation"). This will make these concepts much clearer!
• 09 Probability Theory.doc
• Monday (Feb. 3) we will cover Sections 4 (Venn Diagrams) and 5 (Rules of Probability) of the preceding handout. If you have time before class, review 'What Have We Learned?' (pp. 205 – 206 of textbook), and look over the Exercises on pp. 207 – 208, which we will work in class.
• 09b Probability Theory (more).doc
• Chapter 7 review slides: (PowerPoint) (pdf)
• 10 Binomial Probabilities.doc
  
• Sample Midterm 1
  • Sample Midterm 1 (rev 14 Feb).doc
  • Sample Midterm 1 (rev 14 Feb) with answers.doc
• 11 Normal and Standard Normal Distributions.doc
  • Normdist.xlsx (Old .xls version)
• Normal and Standard Normal Distribution (problems).doc (Thursday)
• 12 Sampling Distribution and Standard Error of the Mean.doc
• 13 Confidence Intervals (rev).doc <- edited after class!
  • Homework 13 (confidence interval) solution.docx
• 14 Hypothesis Testing, p-values, Tests of 1 Mean (rev).doc <- edited after class!
  • raisins.xls
  • Homework 14 (raisins) solution.xls
• 15 1- and 2-Tailed Tests & Confidence Interval of a Proportion.doc
• For solutions to Homework 13 & 14 see above
• Stat251 Final Exam Study Topics.doc

Videos

• jbstatistics YouTube Playlists
• Probability and Statistics (Khan Academy/YouTube)
• Introductory Statistics (Perdisco/YouTube)

Resources

• Introduction to Statistics (Saylor.org)
• Collaborative Statistics (open source text)