Data Sources

Unit 2 (Basics: Data Description)

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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, http://www.fortune.com/lists/F500/index.html
2002.

3 Variability Coefficient of Variation PSE vs. DOT indices PSE/PCX Index. Retrieved June 24, 2002 from http://www.pacificex.com/pse- http://www.pacificex.com/pse-pcx_index/pse-pcx_index_valu
pcx_index/pse-pcx_index_values_01.html and
http://www.pacificex.com/pse-pcx_index/pse-pcx_index_values.html http://www.pacificex.com/pse-pcx_index/pse-pcx_index_valu

TheStreet.com Internet Sector (DOT) Values 2002. Retrieved June 24, 2002 http://www.phlx.com/market/dot2002.html
from http://www.phlx.com/market/dot2002.html

4 Applying Data Analysis Exercise 1 VA Linux Securities and Exchange Commission. VA Linux Systems Registation http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1096199/000089161
Statement. Retrieved February 2002, from
http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1096199/0000891618-99-005587-
index.html.

5 Applying Data Analysis Exercise 5 Electricity Prices Bureau of Labor Statistics Data. Consumer Price Index - U.S. City Average: http://data.bls.gov/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?jrunsessionid
Electricity per 500 KWH. Retrieved January 2002, from
http://data.bls.gov/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?
jrunsessionid=1023386670165108738.

6 Relationships Between Variables Exercise 1 Search Engine Hoerman, Heidi. Exhaustivity/Specificity/Precision/Recall. Retrieved http://www.libsci.sc.edu/hoerman/clis732/Class6~3.pdf
Effectiveness February 2002, from College of Library & Information Science, University of
South Carolina Web site: http://libsci.sc.edu/hoerman/clis732/Class6~3.pdf

7 Relationships Between Variables Exercise 2 Income v Education 1990 Census of Population and Housing. Earnings by Occupation and http://govinfo.library.orst.edu/cgi-bin/sstf22-list?rloc=X001&ra
Education 1990. Retrieved February 2002, from
http://govinfo.library.orst.edu/cgi-bin/sstf22-list?
rloc=X001&radio=&rjob=000&search=&slist=&table=5.

8 Relationships Between Variables Occupancy and Arrivals Kauai Data Monthly Visitor Statistics. Retrieved on June 6, 2002, from http://www.hawaii.gov/dbedt/monthly/index01.html
http://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 Daniel Goleman. Pollsters Enlist Psychologists in Quest for Unbiased
Campaign Contributions Results.The New York Times, September 7, 1993.
from Interest Groups

Unit 4 (Hypothesis Testing)

Ref. Section Clip Data Set Source URL
1 Single Population Means Exercise 1 EPA Sulfur Dioxide Environmental Protection Agency. National Air Quality and Emissions Trends
Standards 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/chapt2.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 Nursalim, Cherie. "Data Supplement: Post-War US Economic Statistics." HBS
Capacity Utilization 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.html
http://hawaii.gov/dbedt/monthly/index01.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.