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• BUS 308 Entire Course (New)
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• BUS 308 Week 2 Problem Set
• BUS 308 Week 3 Problem Set (Anova)
• BUS 308 Week 4 Problem Set (Regression and
  Correlation)

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BUS 308 Week 1 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.bus308mentor.com   Part Two Data
Characteristics Read Lecture One on descriptive
data and review the Employee Data . Be sure to
familiarize yourself with the different variables
shown on the Data tab. In this course, we will be
using the Employee Data and statistical tools
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• BUS 308 Week 1 DQ 2
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• DQ 2 Webliography
• Post a question that you had related to the
  material this week. Conduct research to provide
  the answer to the question and provide the
  source.

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BUS 308 Week 1 Problem Set FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.bus308mentor.com   1. For
assistance with these calculations, see the
Recommended Resources for Week One. Measurement
issues. Data, even numerically code variables,
can be one of 4 levels nominal, ordinal,
interval, or ratio. It is
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• BUS 308 Week 1 Quiz (2 Set)
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• BUS 308 Week 1 Quiz
• Question 1. Calculating the median requires data
  of at least what level ?
• Question 2. If sales data are reported in dollar
  values, what is the scale of the data ?

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• BUS 308 Week 2 DQ 1
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• DQ 1 Hypothesis Testing / T-tests / F-test
• Although the initial post is due on Day 5, you
  are encouraged to start working on it early, as
  it is a three-part discussion that should be
  completed in sequential order.

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• BUS 308 Week 2 DQ 2
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• Post a question that you had related to the
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  the answer to the question and provide the source

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• BUS 308 Week 2 Problem Set
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• Problem Set Week Two
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• Complete the problems below and submit your work
  in an Excel document. Be sure to show all of your
  work and clearly label all calculations. All
  statistical calculations will use the

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• BUS 308 Week 2 Quiz (3 Set)
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• Question 1. To find the z-score of a value, which
  Excel function could be used?
• Question 2. Which statement is not true?
• Question 3. What is the alternate hypothesis in
  a problem where sales group two is predicted to
  be significantly less productive than sales
  group one?

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BUS 308 Week 3 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.bus308mentor.com   Part One Multiple
Testing Read Lecture Seven. The lectures from
last week and Lecture Seven discuss issues around
using a single test versus multiple uses of the
same tests to answer questions about mean
equality between groups. This suggests that
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• BUS 308 Week 3 DQ 2
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• DQ 2 Webliography
• Post a question that you had related to the
  material this week. Conduct research to provide
  the answer to the question and provide the
  source.

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• BUS 308 Week 3 Problem Set (Anova)
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• During this week, we will look at ways of testing
  multiple (more than two) data samples at the same
  time.
• We will continue to use the data and assignment
  file that we opened in Week 2, we just move on to
  the Week 3 tab.

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• BUS 308 Week 3 Quiz (3 Set)
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• BUS 308 Week 3 Quiz
• Question 1. A single factor ANOVA output
  includes information on
• Question 2. ANOVA tests for variance differences

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BUS 308 Week 4 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.bus308mentor.com   Part One
Correlation Read Lecture Ten. Lecture Ten
introduces the idea that different variables may
move togethersometimes due to causation and at
other times due to an unknown influence. An
example involves the perfect (1.0) correlation
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• BUS 308 Week 4 DQ 2
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• DQ 2 Webliography
• Post a question that you had related to the
  material this week. Conduct research to provide
  the answer to the question and provide the
  source.

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• BUS 308 Week 4 Problem Set (Regression and
  Correlation)
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• Problem Set Week Four
• This week we get to answer our equal pay for
  equal work question by looking at relationships
  between and among the different variables.

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BUS 308 Week 4 Quiz (3 Set) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bus308mentor.com   BUS 308 Week 4
Quiz Question 1. The t Stat value is used to
determine the statistical significance of each of
the variables listed in a regression
analysis. Question 2. A correlation of .90 and
above is generally
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BUS 308 Week 5 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.bus308mentor.com   Part One Confidence
Intervals Read Lecture Thirteen. Lecture Thirteen
introduces you to confidence intervals. What is a
confidence interval, and why do some prefer them
to single point estimates? Ask your manager what
is preferred and why? What are
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• BUS 308 Week 5 DQ 2
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• What are common mistakes in linear regression
  analysis?

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BUS 308 Week 5 Final Paper Statistics Reflection
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www.bus308mentor.com   This tutorial contains 2
Different Papers The final paper provides you
with an opportunity to integrate and reflect on
what you have learned during the class. The
question to address is What have you learned
about statistics? In developing your responses,
consider at
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• BUS 308 Week 5 Problem Set
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• ASSIGNMENT WEEK 5
• 1. Create a correlation table for the
  variables in our (Use analysis ToolPak or
  StatPlusmac LE function Correlation).
• a. Reviewing the data levels from week
  1, what variables can be used in a Pearsons
  Correlation Table (which is what Excel produces)?

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• BUS 308 Week 5 Quiz (3 Set)
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• BUS 308 Week 5 Quiz
• Question 1. Compared to the ANOVA test, Chi
  Square procedures are not powerful (able to
  detect small differences).
• Question 2. In confidence intervals, the width
  of the interval depends only on the variation
  within the data set.

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