INTERNET ACCESS AND DATA ANALYSIS

Instructor
Dr. Ali Mir, 340L, Neff Hall; Phone: 481-6495; Fax: 481-6879; e-mail: mirali@ipfw.edu

Policies
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Course Prerequisite
Computer Literacy for Business (K211)

Texts

• James, Moore, An Introduction to Selected Statistical Analysis with Excel 2000
• Fred Hofstetter, Internet Literacy (optional)

Topics

Statistical analyses using Excel

• Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion, Histograms
• Measures of Association (covariance, correlation)
• Hypothesis Testing, Analysis of Variance
• Simple and Multiple Linear Regression

Internet

• History of the internet
• Using the internet for research
• Designing web pages, Introduction to HTML

• Five in-class assignments, statistics (25 points)
• Take-home assignment (15 points)
• Project (10 points)
• Final exam (50 points)

Note: Please make sure you activate your Holmes e-mail account and Web account as soon as possible.  For information on how to do this, you can go to http://www.its.ipfw.edu/students/accounts.html or visit the Information Technology Services department located in KT 204.