ETX1100/ETX5900 Business Statistics

Week 2: Probability and distributions

What you will learn this week

  • Calculate and interpret joint, marginal, union and conditional probabilities.
  • Assess whether events are independent using contingency tables.
  • Use PivotTables to analyse categorical business data.
  • Calculate Normal probabilities and percentiles in Excel.

Class workbooks

Slides for the week

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Upcoming assessments

  • Week 2: Quiz 2
  • Week 3: Quiz 3
  • Week 4: Quiz 4; written assignment due at the end of Week 4