Data Sources

Unit 2 (Basics: Data Description)

Ref. Section Clip Data Set Source URL
1 Describing and Summarizing Data Working with Data 2000 Oil & Gas Financial Times Business Directories. Global Oil and Gas Directory 2002.
London: FT Business; 2001 (32-26).
2 Describing and Summarizing Data Central Values Fortune 100 The 2002 Fortune 500. [Electronic Version]. Fortune Magazine, April 15,
2002.
http://www.fortune.com/lists/F500/index.html
3 Variability Coefficient of Variation PSE vs. DOT indices PSE/PCX Index . Retrieved June 24, 2002 from http://www.pacificex.com/pse-
pcx_index/pse-pcx_index_values_01.html and
http://www.pacificex.com/pse-pcx_index/pse-
pcx_index_values_01.html
http://www.pacificex.com/pse-pcx_index/pse-pcx_index_values.html http://www.pacificex.com/pse-pcx_index/pse-
pcx_index_values.html
TheStreet.com Internet Sector (DOT) Values 2002. Retrieved June 24, 2002
from http://www.phlx.com/market/dot2002.html
http://www.phlx.com/market/dot2002.html
4 Applying Data Analysis Exercise 1 VA Linux Securities and Exchange Commission. VA Linux Systems Registation
Statement. Retrieved February 2002, from
http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1096199/0000891618-99-005587-
index.html.
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1096
199/0000891618-99-005587-index.html
5 Applying Data Analysis Exercise 5 Electricity Prices Bureau of Labor Statistics Data. Consumer Price Index - U.S. City Average:
Electricity per 500 KWH. Retrieved January 2002, from
http://data.bls.gov/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?jrunsessionid=102338667016
5108738.
http://data.bls.gov/servlet/SurveyOutputServle
t?jrunsessionid=1023386670165108738
6 Relationships Between Variables Exercise 1 Search Engine
Effectiveness
Hoerman, Heidi. Exhaustivity/Specificity/Precision/Recall . Retrieved
February 2002, from College of Library & Information Science, University of
South Carolina Web site: http://libsci.sc.edu/hoerman/clis732/Class6~3.pdf
http://www.libsci.sc.edu/hoerman/clis732/Clas
s6~3.pdf
7 Relationships Between Variables Exercise 2 Income v Education 1990 Census of Population and Housing. Earnings by Occupation and
Education 1990 . Retrieved February 2002, from
http://govinfo.library.orst.edu/cgi-bin/sstf22-
list?rloc=X001&radio=&rjob=000&search=&slist=&table=5.
http://govinfo.library.orst.edu/cgi-bin/sstf22-
list?rloc=X001&radio=&rjob=000&search=&sli
st=&table=5
8 Relationships Between Variables Occupancy and Arrivals Kauai Data Monthly Visitor Statistics. Retrieved on June 6, 2002, from
http://hawaii.gov/dbedt/monthly/index01.html
http://www.hawaii.gov/dbedt/monthly/index01.
html
Unit 3 (Sampling & Estimation)
Ref. Section Clip Data Set Source URL
1 Generating Random Samples Classic Sampling Mistakes Public Opinion on
Campaign Contributions
from Interest Groups
Daniel Goleman. Pollsters Enlist Psychologists in Quest for Unbiased
Results .The New York Times, September 7, 1993.
Unit 4 (Hypothesis Testing)
Ref. Section Clip Data Set Source URL
1 Single Population Means Exercise 1 EPA Sulfur Dioxide
Standards
Environmental Protection Agency. National Air Quality and Emissions Trends
Report, 1995 . Retrieved June 12th, 2002, from
http://www.epa.gov/oar/aqtrnd95/report/files/chapt2.pdf
http://www.epa.gov/oar/aqtrnd95/report/files/c
hapt2.pdf
Unit 5 (Regression Basics)
Ref. Section Clip Data Set Source URL
1 Introduction to Regression Exercise 1 Soft Drink Consumption Moriguchi, Chiaki, Ph.D. & Lane, David."A Hundred-Year War: Coke vs.
Pepsi, 1890s-1990s." HBS Case No. N9-799-117/Rev. 1/14/00. Boston:
Harvard Business School Publishing, 1999, 1-2.
3 Deeper into Regression Challenge Business Inventories v
Capacity Utilization
Nursalim, Cherie. "Data Supplement: Post-War US Economic Statistics." HBS
Case No. N9-700-070/ Rev. 11/11/99. Boston: Harvard Business School
Publishing, 1999, 1-9.
4 Deeper into Regression Exercise 2 Productivity by Country Moss, David, Ph.D. & Connor, Mary S. "Unemployment in France: "Priority
Number One." HBS Case No. 9-795-064/ Rev. 10/23/95. Boston: Harvard
Business School Publishing, 1995, 15.
Unit 6 (Multiple Regression)
Ref. Section Clip Data Set Source URL
1 Relationships Between Variables The Staffing Problem (II) Kauai Data Monthly Visitor Statistics. Retrieved on June 6, 2002, from
http://hawaii.gov/dbedt/monthly/index01.html
http://www.hawaii.gov/dbedt/monthly/index01.
html
Unit 7 (Decision Analysis I)
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1 Comparing the Outcomes The Relevant Costs of a
Decision
No Data; Story inspired
by Smart Choices.
Hammond, John S., Ralph L. Keeney, Howard Raiffa. Smart Choices: A
Practical Guide to Making Better Life Decisions. Boston, Mass. : Harvard
Business School Press, c1999.