BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 3370-01

BUSINESS STATISTICS

8:00 am-9: 25 am TR

7:00 pm – 9:55 pm T

INSTRUCTOR: Ann Liprie-Spence

OFFICE:Education 110

793-4999 or campus ext. 4999

E-MAIL:

HOME PHONE: 695-8002

OFFICE HOURS: 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. MWF

9:30 a.m. – 11:30 p.m. T

10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. R

1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. MW

Other hours available by appointment

TEXT:

Douglas A. Lind, William G. Marchal, Samuel A Wathen. Business Statistics for Business and Economics, Fifth Edition, McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2006.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

BA 3370 Business Statistics. Descriptive statistical measures, probability distributions, sampling. inference, chi-square and nonparametric methods, regression and correlation.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

1.To become familiar with the basic principles and steps involved in planning and conducting statistical studies.

2.To apply statistical tools to interpret and convert data into useful information necessary to make sound business decisions.

3.To obtain a working knowledge of the following areas of statistics: descriptive

statistics, probability and probability distributions, sampling distributions, statistical

inference, regression and correlation analysis.

ATTENDANCE POLICY:

You are expected to attend class on a regular basis and are responsible for all material discussed in class. Attendance will be considered when evaluating borderline grades. Any student with more than three unexcused absences may be dropped from the class. (Any necessary absence occurring while a student is representing the University in some official way will be considered an excused absence.)Students with excused absences are responsible for finding out what happened in class and completing any assignments by the next class meeting.

DISABILITY RELATED SERVICES:

McMurryUniversity abides by Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which stipulates that no otherwise qualified student shall be denied the benefits of an education “solely by reason of a handicap”. If you have a documented disability that may impact your performance in this class and for which you may require accommodations, you must be registered with and provide documentation of your disability to the Disability Services Office, located in Old Main, Room 102.. For more information, contact Cherisse Flanagan, at 793-4880 or .

ASSIGNMENTS:

Homework assignments will consist of the supplementary problems in the text. Appendix “B” contains answers to selected odd numbered problems. Homework will not be graded. However, exam grades are often directly related to the amount of time students spend working problems outside of class.

GRADING:

There will be four examinations including the final, each worth a maximum of 100 points. In addition, pop quizzes (worth 10 points each) may be given.

Final Grades will be calculated as follows:

94 – 100 A

90 – 93 A-

87 – 89 B+

84 – 86 B

80 – 83 B-

77 – 79 C+

70 – 76 C

67 – 69 D+

64 – 66 D

60 – 63 D-

59 -below F

TENTATIVE EXAM SCHEDULE:

Students will be given one week notice before all examinations.

Exam I - Chapters 1-3

Exam 2 - Chapters 4-6

Exam 3 - Chapters 7-9

Exam 4 - Chapters 10-13

CHEATING:

Cheating will not be tolerated. Anyone caught cheating will immediately be removed from the class list and receive an “F” for the course.

MAKE-UP EXAM POLICY:

Make-up exams will be given at the instructor’s discretion, and they may differ in form and degree of difficulty from the original exam. Arrangements to take a make-up exam must be made within one week of the date of the original exam.