| Syllabus School of Business QNT/351 Version 3 Quantitative Analysis for Business | | Copyright © 2013, 2012, 2011 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description
This course integrates applied business research and descriptive statistics. Students will learn to apply business research and descriptive statistics in making better business decisions. Other topics include examination of the role of statistics in research, statistical terminology, the appropriate use of statistical techniques, and interpretation of statistical findings in business and research. Policies
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2.5 Calculate central tendency and dispersion. 2.6 Describe the shape of data distribution in charts—box plot, stem and leaf plot, dot plot, and so on. | | | Reading | Read Ch. 2 of Statistics for Business and Economics. | | | Reading | Read Ch. 4 of Basic Statistics for Business and Economics | | | Participation | Participate in class discussion. | | 2 | Discussion Questions | Respond to weekly discussion questions. | | 2 | Nongraded Activities and Preparation Week Two Optional Activity | Resource: University of Phoenix Material: Optional Activity Data SetDownload the optional activity data set.Review the age and gender data in the data set. Display gender information in a chart and plot age data in a box plot. Calculate the appropriate measure of central tendency and variability for the age and gender. What conclusion can you draw from the data? | | | Individual MyStatLab® Problems | Complete the assigned problems in MyStatLab®. Note: You will have an unlimited number of attempts to answer each problem correctly. | 7/12/2013 | 6 | Learning Team Data Collection | Use either the data one of your Learning Team members retained from RES/351 or the data from University of Phoenix Material: Ballard Integrated Managed Services, Inc., Part
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At 5% level of significance, is there sufficient evidence to conclude that the proportions of errors in transactions assigned to each of the 5 memory locations are all different?
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Render, B., Stair, R. & Hanna, M. (2014). “Quantitative Analysis for Management”. 13th Edition, p. 136-156
4. Calculate the following measures of central tendency for the set of cube measurement data. Show your work or explain your procedure for each.
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Match the letter of the answers on the right to the questions on the left.
1. (TCO 2) List at least FOUR sources you will use to obtain information about the firm’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Discuss what categories of the SWOT elements of information are readily available on the Internet. What categories of data are difficult or impossible to find on the Internet? (When using the Internet, be sure to provide specific websites or URLs.)
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A nationwide company, Ballard Integrated Managed Services (BIMS) contracts with large organizations that prefer to focus on their own core competencies and lease support functions to outside vendors. Ballard Integrated Managed Services (BIMS) distinguishes itself in this highly competitive industry by combining several services: housekeeping, foodservice, general cleaning, and physical plant maintenance. (The University of Phoenix material, 2014, p.1). Though lately BIMS had noticed a rise in employee turnover as well as an increase in the use of employee sick time
These can be found in the Ashford Online Library by going to a research database such as JSTOR or ProQuest and searching for your topic. If available, narrow your search category to scholarly journals, including peer-reviewed and full-text documents only. At least three of your sources must be from peer-reviewed scholarly journals.
3.) Strong presence in high margin health services business. In addition to UnitedHealth Group’s leadership position in the health benefits market segment, UnitedHealth Group has strong information and technology based health services platform through its business segments which is Ingenix, OptumHealth and PrescriptionSolutions. The “CNN MONEY” (2012) website states Ingenix is one of the largest health information, technology and consulting companies in the world. The UnitedHealth Group derived $2.3 billion of revenues from Ingenix which contributed $284 million (excluding $200 million in goodwill impairment and business line deposition charges) of operating profit, and an operating margin of 12.1% during FY2010.