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Economics Dept.
Miller College of Business
Ball State Univ.
MBA 611 Statistics and Qantitative Methods
Dr. Tung Liu

Course Description
This course is on the use of statistics and quantitative methods for making business decisions and operation management. The topics include: applications of probability, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, correlation, advanced topics for regression, time series analysis, forecasting, linear programming, and simulation, and their applications to business, economics, and international data.
Prerequisites: ECON 221 or equivalent; full admission to a graduate program in the Miller College of Business.

Current Students
This is a temporary website for MBA 611. The official MBA 611 website is at Blackboard (my.bsu.edu/). When the course website is available on Blackboard, you should use Blackboard for the course materials.
 
The textbooks for MBA 611 are available at T.I.S. Bookstore. The course packet will be available later. You can contact T.I.S. Bookstore at (888) 723-6404, (765) 282-1811, or email to textbkbs@tisbook.com.

I will publish course syllabus and course notes on this website. We will cover my lecture notes from page 25 to 39 on Section D during the first week's lecture. If you cannot have my coure notes for the first week's lecture, you will need to print these pages before the class.

Please note that you must have had at least one semester undergraduate statistics course before you can enroll in this course. For those who would like to review basic statistics, you can download my lecture notes Part I, Sections A, B, C here.

Contents
Part I. Review of Basic Statistics
Part II. Analysis of Variance
Part III. Simple Regression
Part IV. Multiple Regression
Part V. Checking Assumptions in Regression
Part VI. Linear Programming
Part VII. Simulation
 
Testbooks
Statistics for Business and Economics, 7th edition, 2009
Authors: Authors: Paul Newbold, William Carlson, Betty Thorne
(packed with PHStat Software) 
Publisher: Prentice Hall, ISBN: 978-0-13-608536-2.

Prentice Hall Custom Business Resources, (Chapters from Managerial Decision Modeling with Spreadsheets 2/e, Authors: Balakrishnan, Render, Stair, 2007) Complied by MBA 611, Statistics and Quantitative Methods, Tung Liu
Publisher: Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0536404283

Course Packet, MBA 611 Statistics and Quantitative Methods, Tung Liu, Fall 2009.