Data Sources
Unit 2 (Basics: Data Description)
Ref. Section
1 Describing and Summarizing Data
2 Describing and Summarizing Data
3 Variability
4 Applying Data Analysis
5 Applying Data Analysis
6 Relationships Between Variables
7 Relationships Between Variables
8 Relationships Between Variables
Unit 3 (Sampling & Estimation)
Ref. Section
1 Generating Random Samples
Unit 4 (Hypothesis Testing)
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1 Single Population Means
Unit 5 (Regression Basics)
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Clip Data Set Source URL
Working with Data 2000 Oil & Gas Financial Times Business Directories. Global Oil and Gas Directory 2002.
London: FT Business; 2001 (32-26).
Central Values Fortune 100 The 2002 Fortune 500. [Electronic Version]. Fortune Magazine, April 15, http://www.fortune.com/lists/F500/index.html
2002.
Coefficient of Variation PSE vs. DOT indices PSE/PCX Index . Retrieved June 24, 2002 from http://www.pacificex.com/pse-pcx_index/pse-
http://www.pacificex.com/pse-pcx_index/pse-pcx_index_values_01.html and 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, http://www.phlx.com/market/dot2002.html
2002 from http://www.phlx.com/market/dot2002.html
Exercise 1 VA Linux Securities and Exchange Commission. VA Linux Systems Registation http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1096
Statement. Retrieved February 2002, from 199/0000891618-99-005587-index.html
http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1096199/0000891618-99-005587-
index.html.
Exercise 5 Electricity Prices Bureau of Labor Statistics Data. Consumer Price Index - U.S. City Average: http://data.bls.gov/servlet/SurveyOutputServle
Electricity per 500 KWH . Retrieved January 2002, from t?jrunsessionid=1023386670165108738
http://data.bls.gov/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?jrunsessionid=10233866701
65108738.
Exercise 1 Search Engine Hoerman, Heidi. Exhaustivity/Specificity/Precision/Recall . Retrieved http://www.libsci.sc.edu/hoerman/clis732/Clas
Effectiveness February 2002, from College of Library & Information Science, University of s6~3.pdf
South Carolina Web site: http://libsci.sc.edu/hoerman/clis732/Class6~3.pdf
Exercise 2 Income v Education 1990 Census of Population and Housing. Earnings by Occupation and http://govinfo.library.orst.edu/cgi-bin/sstf22-
Education 1990 . Retrieved February 2002, from list?rloc=X001&radio=&rjob=000&search=&sli
http://govinfo.library.orst.edu/cgi-bin/sstf22- st=&table=5
list?rloc=X001&radio=&rjob=000&search=&slist=&table=5.
Occupancy and Arrivals Kauai Data Monthly Visitor Statistics. Retrieved on June 6, 2002, from http://www.hawaii.gov/dbedt/monthly/index01.
http://hawaii.gov/dbedt/monthly/index01.html html
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Classic Sampling Mistakes Public Opinion on Daniel Goleman. Pollsters Enlist Psychologists in Quest for Unbiased
Campaign Contributions Results .The New York Times, September 7, 1993.
from Interest Groups
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Exercise 1 EPA Sulfur Dioxide Environmental Protection Agency. National Air Quality and Emissions
Standards Trends Report, 1995 . Retrieved June 12th, 2002, from http://www.epa.gov/oar/aqtrnd95/report/files/c
http://www.epa.gov/oar/aqtrnd95/report/files/chapt2.pdf hapt2.pdf
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 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 Nursalim, Cherie. "Data Supplement: Post-War US Economic Statistics."
Capacity Utilization 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://www.hawaii.gov/dbedt/monthly/index01.
http://hawaii.gov/dbedt/monthly/index01.html html

Unit 7 (Decision Analysis I)

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1 Comparing the Outcomes The Relevant Costs of a No Data; Story inspired Hammond, John S., Ralph L. Keeney, Howard Raiffa. Smart Choices: A
Decision by Smart Choices. Practical Guide to Making Better Life Decisions. Boston, Mass. : Harvard
Business School Press, c1999.