ECON 3790 (CRN#: 41920)           Lab  Syllabus Fall 2019              Dr. Usip
Time: Friday 8- 8:50 am
Room: B03



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: Learning Economics and Business Statistics with Excel, 3e - by Dr. Usip
Web Address: http://eeusip.people.ysu.edu

GRADING WEIGHT
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Exam 1: Friday, Sep. 20                                                           30 points
     
Exam 2: Friday, Oct. 18                                                           30 points
     
Exam 3: Friday, Nov. 11                                                           30 points
     
Final Exam: Friday, Dec. 6                                                       35 points

      Note: Always bring a flash drive to class for storing your work.

Course Outline:

Week of Workshop Topic  Assignment
8/19 (wk. 1) Chapter 1: Data Entry & Transformations  
8/26 (wk. 2) Chapter 1: Data Entry & Transformations  
9/2 (wk. 3) Chapter 2: Summarizing Data Graphically: Bar Graphs, Pie charts,
                    Histogram, and Crosstabulations.
 
9/9 (wk. 4) Chapter 3: Summarizing Data Numerically: Basic Statistics.  
9/16 (wk. 5) Exam 1    Covers chapters 2 & 3   
9/23 (wk. 6) Chapter 4: Evaluating Empirical Probabilities using Crosstabs command   
9/30 (wk. 7) Chapter 4: Evaluating Binomial Probabilities
Chapter 4: Evaluating Normal Probabilities
 
10/7 (wk. 8) Chapter 5: Sampling and Validating the Central Limit Theorem (CLT)      
10/14 (wk. 9)  Exam 2      Covers chapters 4 & 5   
10/21(wk. 10) Chapter 6: Confidence Interval Estimation  
10/28 (wk. 11) Chapter 7: Hypothesis Testing: One-Sample T Tests  
11/4 (wk. 12) Exam 3      Covers chapters 6 & 7   
11/11 (wk. 13) Chapter 10: One-way ANOVA  
11/18 (wk. 14)

Chapter 11: Simple Linear Regression & Correlation Analysis

 
11/25 (wk. 15) No Lab, Thanksgiving Break  
12/16 (wk. 16) Chapter 12: Multiple Linear Regression & Correlation Analysis  
12/9 (wk. 17) Final Exam:   Dec. 6 @ 8 am (Last Day of Class)  Covers chapters 10, 11. & 12  


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