BUS/ST 350

ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS STATISTICS

Section 002  For Mature, Motivated, Disciplined Students

  0 to Statistics in One High-Velocity Semester  

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Flu Policy

If you are ill with symptoms of influenza (i.e. fever over 100, sore throat, cough, stuffy or runny nose, fatigue, headache, body aches, vomiting and diarrhea) please do not come to lectures or labs. Instead, immediately contact your medical provider or Student Health Services (515-7107) for advice or to arrange an appointment.

If you are diagnosed with the flu, please inform me immediately via email at reiland@stat.ncsu.edu. You will be required to be isolated away from lectures and labs until at least 24 hours after you are free of fever (100 degrees), or signs of a fever, without the use of fever-reducing medications. You will NOT be penalized for missing lectures or labs when you are sick.

With proper medical documentation of your illness you will be allowed to make up without penalty any missed homework assignments, lecture worksheets, and exams.

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  (NY Times) Surveys find that employers want to hire college graduates - business majors or not - who can write coherently, think creatively, and, like these students (left) at the U. of Virginia, analyze quantitative data.

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write.

H. G. Wells, 1895

In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.

Louis Pasteur

If a man will begin with certainties he will end with doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

John Dewey

If you don't believe in random sampling, the next time you have a blood test tell the doctor to take it all.

Anonymous Instructor of Statistics

Don't give up, don't ever give up!
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Jim Valvano, Arthur Ashe Courage Award address, March 4, 1993

Statistics myths this course will disprove:
Myth1: "If I had one hour left to live, I would live it in statistics class because it would seem to last forever!"
A student's lament
Myth 2: "If it moves, it's biology; if it changes color, it's chemistry; if it breaks, it's physics; if it puts you to sleep, it's statistics.
Bob Hogg, University of Iowa
Myth 3: Math class is tough!
Barbie's 1992 voice chip by Mattell

Instructor

Thomas W. Reiland

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  • Associate Professor of Statistics and Operations Research
  • Department of Statistics
  • 5278 SAS Hall
  • Box 8203, Raleigh, NC 27695-8203
  • tel: (919) 515-1939
  • fax: (919) 515-7591
  • FedX: 5109 SAS Hall, 2311 Stinson Dr.
  • Email: reiland@stat.ncsu.edu
  • Office hours Spring 2013: T Th 12:30-1:30, and by appointment.

 

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Course Description

Preq: MA 114; EC 201 or ARE 201. BUS/ST 350 is not a math course! The central theme of the course is to help you learn to understand the world from data. "Beyond the formula" skills are emphasized. This course will require you to: think critically, be skeptical, think about variation (rather than just about the center), move beyond a "memorize the answer" approach, and think about conditional probabilities and rare events when making inferences from data. Interesting examples to convey the broad applicability of statistical methods will be provided, but the principal emphasis throughout the course will be the logic of scientific inference from experimental data.

Goals

The primary goals of the course are to enable you to:
i) incorporate statistical thinking into your everyday lives;

ii) acquire the necessary data-gathering, data-analysis, and communication/interpretation expertise to meet the challenges of a more demanding cognitive global environment.

Students will learn how data are produced, how they may be displayed and summarized, both numerically and graphically, and to be alert to the existence of and problems created by outliers. Students will grasp the logical and probabilistic reasoning behind statistical inference and learn to apply common statistical methods within this context.

Important Academic Calendar Dates Spring 2013

350 and Other COM Courses:

COM Courses That Have BUS/ST 350 as Prerequisite or Corequisite