Course Detail
Units:
4.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Prerequisite: Master's status in the School of Business and either MATH 1100 or equivalent.
Description
A course in the effective use of statistical data for making business decisions. The focus is on computer analysis of business and economic data sets, with instruction in the statistical principles that underlie such analysis. Topics include descriptive statistics (how to organize data and display it graphically), probability theory, distributions (empirical, mathematical, and sampling), inferential statistics (estimation, hypothesis testing, quality control), and the study of relationships (simple and multiple regression, correlation, analysis of variance, time-series analysis).