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