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• BUS 308 Entire Course (Ash Course)
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• BUS 308 Week 1 Assignment Problems 1.2, 1.17, 3.3
  3.22BUS 308 Week 1 DQ 1 Performance ReportBUS
  308 Week 1 DQ 2 The Empirical Rule vs. Chebyshev
  TheoremBUS 308 Week 1 Quiz (10 MCQ)BUS 308 Week
  2 Assignments Problems 4.4, 4.20, 5.12,
  6.22(a)BUS 308 Week 2 DQ 1 Relative
  FrequencyBUS 308 Week 2 DQ 2 Applications for
  ProbabilityBUS 308 Week 2 Quiz (10 MCQ)BUS 308
  Week 3 Assignments Problems 7.11, 7.30, 8.8,
  8.38BUS 308 Week 3 DQ 1 Unscientific Sampling

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• BUS 308 Week 1 Assignment Problems 1.2, 1.17, 3.3
  3.22
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• Focus of the Final Paper
• Select a short video from the list below about a
  specific social problem such as
• Poverty 1. Retrieved on July 7, 2010 from
  http//www.youtube.com/watch?
• Poverty 2. Retrieved on July 7, 2010 from
  http//www.youtube.com/watch?
• Poverty 3. Retrieved on July 7, 2010 from
  http//www.youtube.com/watch?
• Crime. Retrieved on July 7, 2010 from
  http//www.youtube.com/watch?

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• BUS 308 Week 1 DQ 1 Performance Report
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• You are the manager at a company and are asked to
  present a report on the year-to-date performance
  of your division. What type of statistical
  information would you include in your report? In
  particular, which descriptive statistics (mean,
  median, standard deviation

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• BUS 308 Week 1 DQ 2 The Empirical Rule vs.
  Chebyshev Theorem
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• The Empirical Rule vs. Chebyshevs Theorem
• Discuss how the Empirical Rule works and how it
  relates to the bell curve as illustrated in
  Figure 3.14 (a). Then, explain Chebyshevs
  Theorem and how it is different from the
  Empirical Rule. Give a specific example of a
  population with which the Empirical Rule might be
  most effective and one with which Chebyshevs
  Theorem might be most effective. Respond to at
  least two of your classmates

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• BUS 308 Week 1 Quiz (10 MCQ)
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• Question The two types of quantitative
  variables are
•   2. Question As a general rule, when creating
  a stem-and-leaf display, there should be between
  ______ stem values.
•   3. Question The median is the value below
  which and above which approximately 50 percent of
  the measurements lie.
• 4. Question Temperature in degrees Fahrenheit
  is an example of a ____ variable.

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• BUS 308 Week 2 Assignments Problems 4.4, 4.20,
  5.12, 6.22(a)
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• BUS 308 Week 2 Assignments Problems 4.4, 4.20,
  5.12, 6.22(a)
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• BUS 308 Week 2 DQ 1 Relative Frequency
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• Relative Frequency. Conceptually we would expect
  the probability of newborn males and females to
  be the same. However, census reports indicate
  that the ratios of males and females in various
  countries do not conform to the theoretical
  prediction. What do you think accounts for this
  variation?

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• BUS 308 Week 2 DQ 2 Applications for Probability
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• Applications for Probability. In what situations
  might you use probability as a manager to
  approach business-related problems? What are the
  advantages to using probability concepts in
  business decisions? Are there any disadvantages
  or possible pitfalls to avoid in using
  probability in business?
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• BUS 308 Week 2 Quiz (10 MCQ)
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• Question In a statistical study, the random
  variable X 1, if the house is colonial, and X
  0 if the house is not colonial, then it can be
  stated that the random variable is continuous.
• 2. Question The set of all possible
  experimental outcomes is called a(n)
• 3. Question If two events are independent, then
  the probability of their intersection is
  represented by

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• BUS 308 Week 3 Assignments Problems 7.11, 7.30,
  8.8, 8.38
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• BUS 308 Week 3 Assignments Problems 7.11, 7.30,
  8.8, 8.38
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• BUS 308 Week 3 DQ 1 Unscientific Sampling
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• Unscientific Sampling. Consider question 7.45
  from the text A Milwaukee television station,
  WITI-TV, conducted a telephone call-in survey
  asking whether viewers liked the new newspaper,
  the Journal Sentinel. On April 26, 1995, Tim
  Cuprisin, a columnist for the Journal Sentinel,
  wrote the following comment WITI-TV (Channel 6)
  did one of those pollswhich they admit are
  unscientificlast week and found that 388 viewers
  like the new Journal Sentinel and 2,629

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• BUS 308 Week 3 DQ 2 Article Review
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• Article Review. Many articles present statistical
  data and list margins of error (for example,
  reports on political opinion polls, growth or
  decline of the housing markets, manufacturing
  sectors, etc.). Find one such article from a
  reliable source (such as EBSCO or Proquest) in
  the online library that includes a construction
  of confidence intervals for the data studied, and
  give a summary of the topic and

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• BUS 308 Week 3 Quiz (10 MCQ)
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• Question There is little difference between the
  values of ta/2 and Za/2 when the sample
• 2. Question If the population proportion is .4
  with a sample size of 20, then is this sample
  large enough so that the sampling distribution of
  is a normal distribution.
• 3. Question For non-normal populations, as the
  sample size (n) _________, the distribution of
  sample means approaches a/an __________
  distribution.

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• BUS 308 Week 4 Assignments Problems 9.13, 9.22,
  12.10, 12.18(a)
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• BUS 308 Week 4 Assignments Problems 9.13, 9.22,
  12.10, 12.18(a)

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• BUS 308 Week 4 DQ 1 Hypothesis Test
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• Give an example of a hypothesis test you could
  perform at work or at home. State what the Null
  and the Alternative hypotheses would be in your
  test. Explain how you would settle on a
  reasonable level of significance for your
  scenario. Also explain what the type I and II
  errors would be if you reached the incorrect
  conclusion in your test.

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• BUS 308 Week 4 DQ 2 Creating Hypotheses
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• Creating Hypotheses. Assume you are the manager
  of a paint manufacturing factory. Your company
  has received complaints from customers that the
  containers hold less than the amount printed on
  them. On the other hand, corporate management is
  concerned that the containers hold more than the
  standard amount. You assign a statistician to
  verify these claims

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• BUS 308 Week 4 Quiz (10 MCQ)
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• Question Consider using p-value to test H0
  versus Ha by setting a equal to .10. We reject H0
  at level a of significance if and only if the
  p-value is
• 2. Question When carrying out a sample test
  (with ó known) of H0 µ 10 vs. Ha µ gt 10 by
  using a rejection point, we reject Ho at level of
  significance a if and only if the calculated test
  statistic is

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• BUS 308 Week 5 DQ 1 Linear Correlation
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• Linear Correlation. Do you think there is a
  correlation between CEO salaries and the degree
  of success of a company? If you were to take a
  sample of companies with comparable size, market
  capitalization, and product category, and plot
  CEO salaries against the net profit of their
  respective companies, do you expect to find a
  linear correlation between the two? Explain
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• BUS 308 Week 5 DQ 2 Quality Control
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• Quality Control. Visit the websites on Quality
  Control (QC) listed in the Required Websites for
  this week. In addition, locate an article on the
  Internet or in the Library databases that
  describes an example of the use of statistics in
  Quality Control. In your post, briefly define
  Quality Control and explain its importance. Also,
  describe some of the most widely used tools in
  the industry for measuring and controlling
  quality, emphasizing their relationship to what
  you have encountered in this class

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• BUS 308 Week 5 Final Part I Excel
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• Calculate the mean yearly value using the average
  gas prices by month found in the "Final Project
  Data Set".
• 2. Using the years as your x-axis and the annual
  mean as your y-axis, create a scatterplot and a
  linear regression line.
• 3. Answer the following questions using your
  scatterplot and linear regression line What is
  the slope of the linear regression line? What is
  the Y-intercept of the linear regression line?

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• BUS 308 Week 5 Final Part II Analysis Paper on
  gas prices
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• Imagine that you are a manager at a delivery
  service and you are creating a report toproject
  the effects on your company of rising gas prices
  in the next ten years.
• Using thepreceding statistical analysis as your
  basis and outside scholarly resources to support
  yourclaims,
• write a 3 to 5 page paper interpreting the
  results from this perspective. Include
  thefollowing considerations
• 1. Introduce the project and its significance to
  the company.

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