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BUS 735: Business Decision Making and Research

Fall 2013


Instructor:
James Murray, Ph.D.
Office: 403T Wimberly Hall
Office hours: 9:30am-11:00am; Monday through Thursday.
Phone: 608-406-4068
E-mail: jmurray@uwlax.edu

Syllabus (PDF)


Exams

Exam 2 due on Thursday, December 19 at 9:00pm.
Dataset: leisurehospitality.xls.

Exam 1
Datasets: salesrev.sav, cps.sav, wage1D.sav
Due on Thursday, October 31, at 11:59pm


Project Information

Group Assignments


Module 12: Network Models

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Traffic flow spreadsheet: airline.xlsx


Module 11: Transportation Models

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Homework assignment: Pages 251-266, problems 13, 14, 21, 48.


Module 10: Linear Programming

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Homework assignment: End of Chapter 4 (Taylor text) problems 7, 8, 26, 27


Module 9: Forecasting

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Completed Excel Sheet: wi-mining-logging-construction-COMPLETE.xls for Tuesday, November 5, 2013. This is for reference purposes only. You should be able to construct Excel sheets like this from scratch.

Homework assignment due on Tuesday, November 12. Excel sheet: bondstock.xlsx


Module 8: Simulation

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Completed Excel Sheet: simulation_class_example.xlsx for Tuesday, October 29, 2013. This is for reference purposes only. You should be able to construct Excel sheets like this from scratch.

Homework assignment due on Tuesday, November 5: Chapter 14 problems 7 and 8.
Completed Excel sheets: SoundWarehouse.xlsx, FirstAmericanBank-Queue.xlsx


Module 7: Decision Analysis

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In-class Exercise for Tuesday, October 22.
Homework assignment: End of Chapter 12 (Taylor text) problems 5, 7, 10, 16, 25, 27.


Module 6: Introduction to Probability

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In-class Exercise for Tuesday, October 16, 2012, Dataset: appliances.xls.
Homework assignment: End of Chapter 11 (Taylor text) problems 8, 10, 14c, 21, 23 (compute the std deviation also), 29, 30.


Module 5: Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance / Covariance

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SPSS Handout for RANOVA. Dataset: Job Satisfaction.sav.
Homework assignment due Tuesday, October 15, 2014. Dataset: cex.sav.


Module 4: Analysis of Variance / Covariance

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Quiz for Tuesday, October 1, 2013. Dataset: Job Satisfaction.sav.
SPSS Handout for Multi-Way ANOVA and ANCOVA. Dataset: Job Satisfaction.sav.


Module 3: Logistic Regression: Regression Analysis with a Binary Dependent Variable

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In-class Exercise for Tuesday, September 24, 2013. Dataset: Job Satisfaction.sav.
Homework assignment due Tuesday, October 1, 2014. Dataset: mroz.sav.


Module 2: Correlation, Comovement, and Regression Analysis

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SPSS Datasets: publicexp.sav, hotel.sav.

In-class Exercise, Dataset: house.sav

Homework assignment. Deadline: Tuesday, September 24, 2013. Datasets: moving.sav.


Module 1: Univariate and Bivariate Statistics

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SPSS Datasets: eduspending.sav, econoutlook.sav, gradeschool.sav, publicexp.sav.

In-class Exercise, Dataset: electricity.sav

Homework assignment. Deadline: Tuesday, September 17, 2013. Datasets: eurointernet.sav, training.sav.