Data Sources

Unit 2 (Basics: Data Description)

Ref. Section Clip Data Set Source
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.

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.html

TheStreet.com Internet Sector (DOT) Values 2002. Retrieved June 24, 2002
from 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.

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=1023386670165108738.

6 Relationships Between Variables Exercise 1 Search Engine Hoerman, Heidi. Exhaustivity/Specificity/Precision/Recall. Retrieved
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
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://hawaii.gov/dbedt/monthly/index01.html

Unit 3 (Sampling & Estimation)

Ref. Section Clip Data Set Source
 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
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

Unit 5 (Regression Basics)

Ref. Section Clip Data Set Source

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

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

Unit 7 (Decision Analysis I)

Ref. Section Clip Data Set Source

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.

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