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OPRE 6301/SYSM 6303 (cross-listed courses) FALL 2012
Carol A. Flannery, Ed.D.
Fall 2012
Friday
Tues/Thurs
Wednesday
Thursday
4:00 pm to 6:45 pm
11:30 am to 12:45 pm
1:00 pm to 3:45 pm
7:00 pm to 9:45 pm
SOM 1.217
SOM 2.106
SOM 1.117
SOM 1.212
972-883-5853 (Answered only during office hours)
JSOM 2.416 flannery@utdallas.edu All contact concerning your class must be via eLearning class website.
Email sent via eLearning is checked daily Monday through Friday.
Voicemail on office phone is not checked daily.
Office Hours
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
10:00 am to 11:15 am
11:30 am to 12:30 pm
10:00 am to 11:15 am and 6:00 pm to 6:45 pm
3:00 pm to 3:45 pm
Teaching Assistant
To be posted for each section on eLearning
Please note: Office hours are not to be used to reiterate a class that was missed. Have your questions or problems prepared before coming to see either your professor or TA. Written evidence you have attempted problems will be required.
General Course Information
Pre-requisite: MATH 5304 or equivalent
Course Description
OPRE 6301 Quantitative Introduction to Risk and Uncertainty in Business (3 semester hours) Introduction to statistical and probabilistic methods and theory applicable to situations faced by managers. Topics include: data presentation and summarization, regression analysis, fundamental probability theory and random variables, introductory decision analysis, estimation, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and One Way
ANOVA (Some sections of this class may require a laptop computer). Prerequisite: MATH 5304 or equivalent.
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Learning Objectives
Students are expected to develop skills on problem formulation, identification of appropriate statistical techniques, computer implementations in Excel and/or manual calculations and written