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Lecturers: Dr. Daniel Henderson (Semester 1) and Dr. Lee Fawcett (Semester 2)
MAS1403 students should "favourite" this page!
This page contains additional information about the introductory module in Quantitative Methods for Business Management (MAS1403). Here you will find resources for Semester 2 of this course - please go to Daniel Henderson's page for Semester 1 materials.
| Schedule | Lecture Notes | Assessment | CBA info | Late Work Policy |
Click here to download a week-by-week schedule for Semester 2, including deadlines for coursework.
Lectures take place on Mondays at 2 pm (Business Management/Accounting & Finance) or 3 pm (Agri-Business Management/Marketing/Business, Accounting & Finance/Marketing & Management) in the Curtis Auditorium in the Herschel Building.In addition to the Monday lecture, each student should also attend one tutorial session later on in the week. These tutorials will be led by either Dr. Lee Fawcett or Dr. Malcolm Farrow. Due to the size of this class, there are seven tutorial groups (A, B, C, D, E, F and G).
The allocation of students to tutorial groups is listed here - please make a note of which group you are in!
The table below shows the times and venues of each tutorial session.
================================================================================= Group Day Time Room Tutorial Leader ================================================================================= A Tues 12-1 LT3, Herschel Lee Fawcett B Tues 3-4 LT3, Herschel Malcolm Farrow C Thurs 3-4 LT2, Herschel Lee Fawcett D Thurs 4-5 LT2, Herschel Lee Fawcett E Fri 9-10 LT2, Herschel Malcolm Farrow F Fri 10-11 LT3, Herschel Malcolm Farrow G Fri 1-2 LT3, Herschel Lee Fawcett =================================================================================
An attendance register will be taken at each tutorial.
Occasionally throughout the year, a computer practical session will take the place of the scheduled tutorial session. In Semester 2, this will happen in teaching week 7. The computing sessions will take place in the Blue and Red zones of the Herschel Computer Cluster on the first floor of the Herschel Building.
Please note that these computing sessions may take place on a different day or different time from your regular tutorial, so please check the details below!
The table below shows the times and dates of these sessions.
============================================================================= Group Day Time Dates Notes ============================================================================= A Tue 1-2 13 March Note the unusual day/time B Fri 4-5 16 March Note the unusual day/time C Thurs 3-4 15 March D Thurs 4-5 15 March E Fri 9-10 16 March F Fri 10-11 16 March G Wed 10-11 14 March Note the unusual day/time =============================================================================
In addition to the scheduled lecture and tutorials/practicals, I have also timetabled "Office hours" - Wednesday 3pm-5pm - where I will always be available in my office for students who need extra help.
Lecture notes will be posted below, together with solutions to
tutorial exercises. They are in pdf format and you may need Acrobat
Reader to view them - click on the link to download your own (free)
copy.
You should print out and read lecture notes before each lecture and attempt tutorial questions before each tutorial session - solutions will be posted after the final tutorial session each week. The notes and solutions currently available are shown in green below; those that are unavailable are shown in red.
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Please report to me any errors or suggested improvements to these notes.
In Semester 2, there will be one assignment (10%) and three computer-based assessments (combined total of 10%). This follows exactly the same assessment pattern as in Semester 1.
There will be a 2 hour examination at the end of Semester 2 covering the whole course (Semesters 1 and 2) which counts for 60% of your final mark.
The entire course will be examined at the end of Semester 2, in the May/June exam period. More information about the exam will be given in due course.
The exam for MAS1403 will be open-book - you can take anything you like into the exam room!
For a list of exam regulations, including an up-to-date list of University-approved calculators (point 12), click here.
There are two assignments, one in each semester. An announcement will be made in class when these are available to download.
The deadline for the assignment in Semester 2 is 4pm, Friday 27th April 2012.
Note that it is not possible to extend submission deadlines for coursework in this module and no late work can be accepted. For details of the policy (including procedures in the event of illness etc.) please look at the School web site (http://www.ncl.ac.uk/maths/students/teaching/homework/).
| CBA Timetable | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CBA | Practice start | Practice end | Assessed start | Assessed end |
| CBA4 | Monday 13 February | open ended | Monday 20 February | Friday 24 February |
| CBA5 | Monday 5 March | open ended | Monday 12 March | Friday 16 March |
| CBA6 | Monday 30 April | open ended | Monday 7 May | Friday 11 May |
Click here to download the one-page CBA user-guide given out in the first practical session (available to download at the end of week 2). A more detailed CBA instruction manual is available to download here.
To find out how to access the CBAs from anywhere outside the university (using RAS) and lots of other information besides, click here.
It is not possible to extend submission deadlines for coursework in this module and no late work can be accepted. For details of the policy (including procedures in the event of illness etc.) please look at the School web site (http://www.ncl.ac.uk/maths/students/teaching/homework/).
To access your coursework marks for MAS1403, you need to log in to the NESS database system. All of your marks for this course are stored in this system, and maybe for other some other courses too.
To access NESS from a Newcastle University computer (or via RAS), go to https://ness.ncl.ac.uk/. Use your usual University login ID and password to enter the system. Your login information is retained until your browser session (all windows!) is closed. So to logout, you need to close the browser. Using the menus in NESS, go to Coursework, then Summary.
By default this will give you all your current Coursework information. To look at a single module, click on one of the module codes. To look at a single unit of coursework, set the pull-down menu to the relevant exercise, e.g. to Exercise 1, rather than the general heading Coursework.
Your coursework marks will appear in NESS throughout the Semester as they are released.
Chapter 1: How shops use data
Chapter 1: Data collection and questionnaires
Chapter 1: The Gallup organisation and market research
Chapter 2: Graphical summaries of data
Chapter 4: Means, medians, modes
Chapter 4: Standard deviation
Chapter 4: Standard deviation on the calculator
Chapter 4: Inter-quartile range
Chapter 8: The Binomial distribution
Chapter 8: The Poisson distribution
Chapter 9: The Normal distribution
Chapter 10: The Uniform distribution
Chapter 10: The Exponential distribution
Chapter 1: Confidence intervals (population variance known)
Chapter 1: Confidence intervals (population variance unknown)
Chapter 2: Test for one mean (population variance known)
Video out-takes
Lecturer: Dr.
Lee Fawcett
Office: 2.07, Herschel Building
Email: lee.fawcett@ncl.ac.uk