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• MATH 533 Entire Course (New)
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• MATH 533 Week 1 Homework
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• MATH 533 Week 1 Quiz
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• MATH 533 Week 2 DQ 1 Case Let's Make a Deal
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• MATH 533 Week 2 Homework (2 Sets)
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• MATH 533 Week 2 Quiz
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• MATH 533 Final Exam Set 1 (New)
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• (TCO D) PuttingPeople2Work has a growing business
  placing out-of-work MBAs. They claim they can
  place a client in a job in their field in less
  than 36 weeks. You are given the following data
  from a sample.
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• Sample size 100
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• Population standard deviation 5
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• Sample mean 34.2

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• MATH 533 Final Exam Set 2 (New)
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• 1. (TCO A) Seventeen salespeople reported the
  following number of sales calls completed last
  month.
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• 72 93 82 81 82
  97 102 107 119
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• 86 88 91 83 93
  73 100 sales calls per month.

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• MATH 533 Week 1 Homework (New)
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• 1. Complete the table to the right.
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• 2. In one university, language incorporated
  a 10-week extensive reading program to improve
  students Japanese reading comprehension. The
  professors collected 267 books originally written
  for Japanese children and required their students
  to read at least 40 of them as part of the grade
  in the course. The books were categorized into
  reading levels (color-coded for easy selection)
  according to length and complexity. Complete
  parts a through c.
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• MATH 533 Week 1 Quiz (New)
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• 1. Graph the relative frequency histogram
  for the 300 measurements summarized in the
  relative frequency table to the right.
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• 2. Would you expect the data sets that
  follow to possess relative frequency
  distributions that are symmetric, skewed to the
  right, or skewed to the left? Explain. Complete
  parts a through c below.
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• MATH 533 Week 2 DQ 1 Case Let's Make a Deal (New)
  
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• A number of years ago, there was a popular
  television game show called Let's Make a Deal.
  The host, Monty Hall, would randomly select
  contestants from the audience and, as the title
  suggests, he would make deals for prizes.
  Contestants would be given relatively modest
  prizes and then would be offered the opportunity
  to risk that prize to win better ones.

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• MATH 533 Week 2 Homework (2 Sets) (New)
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• 1. The table to the right gives a breakdown
  of 2,149 civil cases that were appealed. The
  outcome of the appeal, as well as the type of
  trial (judge or jury), was determined for each
  case. Suppose one of the cases is selected at
  random and the outcome of the appeal and type of
  trial are observed.
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• MATH 533 Week 2 Quiz (New)
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• 1. A countrys government has devoted
  considerable funding to missile defense research
  over the past 20 years. The latest development is
  the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS), which
  uses satellite imagery to detect and track
  missiles. The probability that an intruding
  object (e.g., a missile) will be detected on a
  flight track by SBIRS is 0.6. Consider a sample
  of 10 simulated tracks, each with an intruding
  object. Let x equal the number of these tracks
  where SBIRS detects the object. Complete parts a
  through d.
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• MATH 533 Week 3 DQ 1 Ethics in Statistics
  Readings and Discussion (New)
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• Why is it important to study ethics in
  statistics? Have you seen statistics misused?
  Without naming specific companies or people, can
  you provide examples?
• Please find (on the Internet or from the
  Keller library) and post an article regarding
  ethics and statistics. Please attach the article,
  or provide its link in your post

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• MATH 533 Week 3 Homework (New)
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• 1. The mean gas mileage for a hybrid car is
  56 miles per gallon. Suppose that the gasoline
  mileage is approximately normally distributed
  with a standard deviation of 3.3 miles per
  gallon.
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• 2. The ages of a group of 50 women are
  approximately normally distributed with a mean of
  49 years and a standard deviation of 5 years. One
  woman is randomly selected from the group, and
  her age is observed.

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• MATH 533 Week 3 Quiz (2 Sets) (New)
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• 1. The average salary for a certain
  profession is 97,000. Assume that the standard
  deviation of such salaries is 33,500. Consider a
  random sample of 54 people in this profession and
  let x represent the mean salary for the sample.
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• 2. Almost all companies utilize some type of
  year-end performance review for their employees.
  Human Resources (HR) at a universitys Health
  Science Center provides guidelines for
  supervisors rating their

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• MATH 533 Week 4 DQ 1 Case Statistics in Action
  Medicare Fraud Investigations (New)
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• Read the selection in your textbook pertaining to
  the Case Statistics in Action Medicare Fraud
  Investigations load the data set for the case,
  MCFRAUD, into Minitab answer the question about
  the case in the Discussion area and likewise
  read and respond to the follow-on selections in
  the textbook for the case in the Statistics in
  Action Revisited.

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• MATH 533 Week 4 Homework (New)
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• 1. Health Care workers who use latex gloves
  with glove powder on a daily basis are
  particularly susceptible to developing a latex
  allergy. Each in a sample of 43 hospital
  employees who were diagnosed with a latex allergy
  based on a skin-prick test reported on their
  exposure to latex gloves. Summary statistics for
  the number of latex gloves used per week are x
  19.4 and s 12.3. Complete parts (a) (d).

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• MATH 533 Week 4 Quiz (2 Sets) (New)
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• 1. A random samples of 1020 satellite radio
  subscribers were asked, Do you have a satellite
  radio receiver in your car? The survey found
  that 102 subscribers did, in fact, have a
  satellite receiver in their car.
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• 2. Each child in a sample of 64 low-income
  children was administered a language and
  communication exam. The sentence complexity
  scores had a mean of 7.62 and a standard
  deviation of 8.91. Complete parts a through

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• MATH 533 Week 5 DQ 1 Case Statistics in Action
  Diary of a Kleenex User (New)
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• Read the selection in your text book pertaining
  to the Case Statistics in Action Diary of a
  Kleenex User load the data set for the case,
  TISSUES, into Minitab answer the question about
  the case in the Discussion area and likewise
  read and respond to the follow-on selections in
  the textbook for the case in the Statistics in
  Action Revisited.

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• MATH 533 Week 5 Homework (New)
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• 1. A study of n 90,000 first-time
  candidates for an exam found that the number of
  semester hours of college credit taken by the
  sampled candidates is summarized by x 145.72
  and s 18.53. A professor claims that the true
  mean number of semester hours of college credit
  taken is 145.
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• 2. A study of n 59 hospital employees
  found that the number of latex gloves used per
  week by the sampled worker is summarized by x
  21.2 and s 13.1. Let µ represent the mean
  number of latex gloves used per week by all
  hospital employees. Consider testing

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• MATH 533 Week 5 Quiz (New)
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• 1. A group of professors investigated
  first-year college students knowledge of
  astronomy. One concept of interest was the Big
  Bang Theory of the creation of the universe. In a
  sample 0f 141 freshman students, 35 believed that
  the Big Bang Theory accurately described the
  creation of plantery systems. Baesd on this
  information, is it correct at the a 0.01 level
  of significance to state that more than 20 of
  all freshman college students believe the Big
  Bang theory describes the creation of planetary
  systems?

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• MATH 533 Week 6 Course Project Part B Hypothesis
  Testing and Confidence Intervals (SALESCALL
  Project) (New)
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• Your Instructor will provide you with four
  manager speculations, a.-d., in the Doc Sharing
  file.
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• Using the sample data, perform the hypothesis
  test for each of the above situations in order to
  see if there is evidence to support your
  managers belief in each case a.-d. In each case
  use the Seven Elements of a Test of Hypothesis,
  in Section 6.2 of your text book, using the a
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• MATH 533 Week 6 DQ 1 Case Statistics in Action
  Legal AdvertisingDoes It Pay (New)
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• Read the Case Statistics In Action Legal
  AdvertisingDoes It Pay?, and answer the
  following questions. (The case is included in
  your textbook, Chapter 10.) The data set for the
  case study is LEGALADV, and it is available in
  your textbook resources, so you don't have to
  enter the data!

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• MATH 533 Week 6 Homework (New)
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• 1. A MINITAB printout relating the size of
  the diamond (number of carats) to the asking
  price (dollars) for 308 diamonds is shown below.
  Complete parts a through e.
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• 2. The average driving distance (yards) and
  driving accuracy (percent of drives that land in
  the fairway) for 8 golfers are recorded in the
  table to the right. Complete parts a through e
  below.
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• MATH 533 Week 6 Quiz (New)
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• 1. An association was formed by students to
  protest labor exploitation in the apparel
  industry. There were 18 student sit-ins for a
  sweet-free campus organized at several
  universities. Data were collected for the
  duration (in days) of each sit-in, as well as the
  number

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• MATH 533 Week 7 Course Project Part C Regression
  and Correlation Analysis (SALESCALL Project)
  (New)
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• Your Instructor will specify for you the
  dependent variable and the independent variables
  in your Case and data. Using MINITAB perform the
  regression and correlation analysis for the data
  by answering the following.
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• Generate a scatterplot for the specified
  dependent variable and the specified independent
  variable, including the graph of the "best fit"
  line. Interpret.

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• MATH 533 Week 7 DQ 1 Case Statistics in Action
  Bid-Rigging in the Highway Construction Industry
  (New)
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• Read the Case Statistics in Action Bid-Rigging
  in the Highway Construction Industry, in Chapter
  11 of your textbook, and answer the following
  questions. The data set, FLAG, for the case study
  is available in the publishers website, so you
  dont need to enter the data into Minitab by
  hand.
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• What is this case about? Describe the key
  variables.

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• MATH 533 Week 7 Homework (New)
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• 1. Researchers developed a safety
  performance function (SPF), which estimates the
  probability of occurrence of a crash for a given
  segment of roadway. Using data on over 100
  segments of roadway, they fit the model E(y)
  , where y number of crashes per three years,
  roadway length (miles), and average annual
  daily traffic (number of vehicles) AADT.

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• MATH 533 Week 7 Quiz (New)
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• 1. Data on the average annual precipitation
  (y), altitude (x1), latitude (x2), and distance
  from the coast (x3) for a particular state were
  collected for 10 meteorological stations. The
  observations are listed in the table below.
  Consider the first-order model y , e.
  Complete parts a through c.
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• 2. Researchers developed a safety
  performance function (SPF), which estimates the
  probability of occurrence of a crash for a given
  segment of roadway. Using data on over 100
  segments of roadway, they fit the model E(y)

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