Saturday, July 25, 2009

Business Statistics

Completing our trio of statistics courses – three very different courses.

Business Statistics
• Business school requirement
• 4 yr. schools
• Comprehensive course
• Broad list of topics (metrics, probability, inference, regression, time series, decision analysis, ...)
• Real business data (relatively clean)
• Skill oriented
• Often uses Excel

Instructors
• Business School / Economists / Statisticians
• May have taught this course for many years

Students
• Business school majors (business, economics, finance, accounting, ...)
• Less fear of math
• Interested in decision making

Challenges
• Breadth
• Regression, inference, hypothesis testing

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