Thursday, January 26, 2012

Youtubes

Here are some Youtubes....I'll be adding more in the next few days


Simple linear regression

Creating a dummy variable

Moving averages, exponential smoothing and MSE

Solver for the Eqyptian farmer problem (Q9) in-class work Part 5

Solver Minimisation for the Marketing Professor Problem (Q10)

Data Sources

You can either collect your own data or find external sources, such as the Internet. Here are some sources to get you started. If you find more that you'd like to share, please let me know and I'll add them.


Vancouver
World Bank
 BC Data
Kwantlen Library…business stats
http://www.kwantlen.ca/library/subjects/busi_stats.html

World Health Organisation
http://www.who.int/research/en/

Weather -- including historical weather data for any city. Might be useful if you were doing the bike-riding example!
www.wunderground.com