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~Since students taking basic statistics differ greatly in mathematical backgrounds, these discussions are kept on a basic level with informal descriptions emphasized. The inspiration for many of my articles is based on questions often asked by my students.


Average Cost


Beating the Slot Machines

Bernoulli's Backdoor approach

Biased Sample

Bid & Ask Prices

Binomial Expansion

Calculus In Business

Casino Games

Casino Slot Machines

Central Limit Theorem

Chi-Square

Choosing the Alternate Hypothesis

Cluster Sampling

Coefficient of Determination

Compound Interest

Conditional Probability

Confidence Intervals

Confidence Intervals using the Finite Population Correction

Contingency Tables

Correlation & Regression

Critical Values, Test Statistic, & P-Value

Curve Fitting

Daily Distribution of Birthdays

Data

DeMorgan's Laws of Logic

Final Exam Review Problems

Final Exam Review Problems (Procedures)

Review Problems (Answers)

Finding Beta (The probability of a Type II error)

Finding Binomial Probabilities

Finding Sample Size

Finding Sample Size with the Finite Population Correction

Fraction Phobia?

Hypothesis Testing

Hypothesis Tesing: Example

Inferences About Two Population Means

Inferences About Two Population Proportions

Is Flying Really Safer Than Driving?

Loan Formula

Luck

Margin of Error

Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution

Odds

Pascal's Triangle

Percent Deception

Percent Increase, Decrease, & Rate of Change

Popular Algebraic Techniques 

Popular TI-83 menus used in Stat

Probability

Probability--Common Mistakes

Probability Trees

2-Dimensional Probability

Proportions & Percentages

Quadratic Inequality

Random Vs Simple Random

Random Variables

Replacement or Without Replacement

Significant Digits

Simple Growth/Decay

Supply & Demand Functions

The Best Reference Books

The Birthday Problem

The 2nd Derivative in Business

The Stock market & Slot Machines

TI-83 Boxplots

TI-83 Histograms

Total Probability & Bayes' Thm

Type I & Type II Errors

Using the TI-83 in Statistics

What Test to Use

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