MBST600 Weekly Activity Problems
 Site Updated July 10, 2004
Added Statistical Literacy Videos to Week 12
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Introduction
Video Lessons for Activity Problems
On this page, we're providing video lessons and example problems to help you do the Activity Problems. Each video runs from five to twelve minutes. We also included links to download the Activity Problems and to prepare your computers to play the videos and view the example problems in PDF.
If you would like electronic copies of the Activity Problems, Click Activity Problems to go to the download page. You can type your answers into these Microsoft Word documents.
To download the free plug-ins you'll need to access S3C's materials, Click Plug-ins and Video Tips.
Getting Help
- For help with the course, please contact your instructor.
- For academic help, please contact your adviser.
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651-962-6230, send an email to the Tech Desk, or visit the Tech Desk site at Information Resources and Technologies.
- For help with this S3C site, please email the Site Coordinator.
- For a math refresher, please Click Math Concepts. Disregard the test reference unless your instructor has assigned it. Feel free, however, to try the practice problems.
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Week 1
Week 2
Activity I
Activity I, Problem 1, Part 1
Descriptive Statistics
Overview
Videos and Example Problem
These videos discuss descriptive statistics (using data to create information), inferential statistics (using information to create knowledge), statistics and parameters, sample and census, constants, true average, sample average, random variable, true mean, data, standard deviation, average deviation, and Chapter 4 from The Decision Making Book.
Activity II -- Articles & Readings
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Week 3
Activity I
Activity V
Activity VI
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Week 4
Activity I
Activity VI
Activity VIII, Problem 1
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Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Activity I
Activity II -- Articles & Readings
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Week 8
Activity II -- Articles & Readings
Activity VIII, Problem 2
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Week 9
Activity I
Activity I, Problem 9
Activity I, Problem 9 Video Series
The sixth video discusses BestFit, one of the DecisionTools applications that fits distributions to data. For context, you may want to review the other videos in the series.
Activity V
Activity VIII, Problem 3
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Week 10
Activity I
Activity VIII, Problem 4
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Week 11
Activity I
Activity II -- Articles & Readings
Activity VIII
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Week 12
Activity I, Problem 8
The following materials were presented earlier. We will explore them in more detail here.
PrecisionTree Video Series
If you would like additional background material on PrecisionTree, check out the links below. The first link will launch a video on PrecisionTree. The second link will launch a lesson on using Decision Analysis Software.
PrecisionTree
Decision Analysis Software Lesson
Activity V
Activity X
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Week 13
Activity II -- Articles & Readings
Activity VIII
Activity VIII, Problem 7
This assignment requires using BestFit to fit a distribution to data, and doing a break-even analysis.
We looked at BestFit in the Video Series for Activity I, Problem 9. We posted it again, here, if you need a refresher. The sixth video discusses BestFit. For context, you may want to review the other videos in the series.
Activity I, Problem 9 Video Series
We looked at Break Even for another assignment. We posted it again, here, if you need a refresher.
Break Even -- Chapter 11.5
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Week 14
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