This intent of this wiki is to provide an introduction to the statistical methods commonly used in business applications; coverage includes topics normally studied in an undergraduate business statistics course.
Statistics for Strategy (06E:071)
The following information is for students enrolled in Professor Ingram's sections of 06E:071. Click on a topic heading to get more information.
Course Information
Syllabus
Contact information for instructors
Exams
Software packages
Minitab
Excel
Data files
Video files
Topics in Statistics
Distributions
Random Variables
- Definition
- Mean
- Variance
Probability
- Properties
- [Probability density function]
Sampling
- Sample space
- Sampling Distributions
- The Normal Distribution
- [Binomial Distribution]
Estimation
- Mean
- Variance and Standard Deviation
- Correlation
Inference
- Hypothesis Testing
- Confidence Intervals
- Power and Significance
- [Specific Tests]
- Population Mean
- [Population Proportion]
- [Comparing Population Means]
- [Population Variance]
- Chi-square Tests
- One-way fixed effects ANOVA
Regression
- Simple
- Multiple
- Logistic
Time Series and Forecasting
- Trends
- [Seasonal Components]
- [Moving average Models]
- [Autoregressive Models]
- Exponential Smoothing
Glossary
Labels
Assignments
Chi-square Tests
Confidence Intervals
Contact information for instructors
Correlation
Data files
Definition
Definitions
Exams
Excel
Exponential Smoothing
Glossary
Hypothesis Testing
Logistic
Mean
Mean Estimation
Minitab
Multiple
One-way fixed effects ANOVA
Population Mean
Power and Significance
Properties
Proportions
Sample space
Sampling Distributions
Simple
Summarizing Data
Syllabus
The Normal Distribution
Trends
Variance
Variance and Standard Deviation
Video files