Day-to-day course agendas (PPT) for spring 2006 semester: covered chapters 1 - 4, section 5A, 6 - 8, 10 - 12. Many of the rubrics are not given below since the spring 2006 semester made use of non-memo assignments every other week.

Description (all from Spring 2006) Memo Data Rubric
Cruise ship entertainment problems: Students learn to gather data as to what a problem might or might not entail. M1 none R1
Cruise ship entertainment data: Students test their data gathering process from the first memo. M2 none R2
Cruise ship entertainment patterns: Students use basic techniques to understand entertainment patterns and make recommendations. M3 D3 R3
Management Placement: Students use univariate statistics and boxplots to place management clients in one of four companies. M4 D4 R4
Under revision M5 D5 R5
Beef n' Buns: Statistical graphs used to explore service times in response to customer complaints. M6 D6 R6
Trucking fleet maintenance: Determine how different aspects affect maintenance expenses for a trucking fleet. M7 D7 R7
Commuter rail use: How various factors affect the number of riders using a public rail system. M8 D8 R8
Gender discrimination: Analyze employee records using multiple regression for evidence of possible gender discrimination. M9 D9 R9
Trucking fleet maintenance: Using stepwise regression with interaction terms to analyze truck maintenance records. M10 D10 R10
Nonlinear fits: Students attempt to better Excel's trendline fits for nonlinear data using transformations and scaling. M11 D11 R11
Insurance policies: Using nonlinear regression to develop multiplicative models for predicting . M12 D12 R12
MacroSoft software distribution: Using calculus, students analyze different strategies for increasing profits (polynomials). M13 D13 R13
Wine storage: Optimizing wine sales by balancing future value of wine with storage costs. M14 D14 R14
Under development M15 D15 R15
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