ECON 3790            Lab  Syllabus               Fall 2009


 Dr. Usip's Office Hours:  MTWR 10 - 11am and by appointment                       
Mr. Munroe's Office Hours (43817; 44030)): Will be announced in class           

TEXT: Learning Economics and Business Statistics with Excel 2007 - by Dr. Usip
 Web Address: www.cc.ysu.edu/~eeusip/

GRADING WEIGHT:
      Exam # 1 (Date to be announced)                                                                        40 points
      Exam # 2 (Date to be announced)                                                                        40 points
      Assignments (Dates to be announced)                                                             30 points
      Final Exam. (lAST CLASS MEETING FOR ALL SECTIONS)                      40 points

      Note:
      Always bring a jump/flash drive to class for storing your work.

 Outline:

Week

Workshop Topic

Assignment

1

Chapter 1: Data Entry & Transformations

  

2

Chapter 2: Summarizing Data Graphically: Bar Graphs, Pie charts,
                                                                  Histograms, & Crosstabulations.

  

3

Chapter 3: Summarizing Data Numerically: Basic Statistics & Boxplots.

  

4

MT #1: Covers materials from Weeks 1 thru 3

Chapter 4: Evaluating Empirical Probabilities using the Crosstabs command 

 

5

Chapter 4: Evaluating Binomial Probabilities

  

6

Chapter 4: Evaluating Normal Probabilities

 

7

Chapter 5: Sampling and validating the CLT

 

8

Chapter 6: Confidence Interval Estimation

  

9

Chapter 7: Hypothesis Testing: One-Sample T Test

  

10

MT #2: Covers materials from Weeks 4 thru 9

  

11

Chapter 9: X2 Test of Goodness-of-fit and Independence

  

12

Chapter 10: One-way ANOVA

  

13

Chapter 11: Simple Linear Regression & Correlation Analysis

  

14

Chapter 12: Multiple Linear Regression & Correlation Analysis

  
15 Review session

 
16

Final Exam: LAST DAY OF CLASS


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