QBA 501 - Data Analysis for Business Decision Making

In today’s technology driven society, there is access to unprecedented amounts of information. The significantly enhanced ability to acquire and manipulate quantitative data places new demands on a manager’s decision-making toolbox. It is essential to understand just how to look at this data in ways that allow decision makers to make sense out of it all.
This course utilizes a variety of techniques, including descriptive statistics, probability and probability distributions, sampling and sampling distributions, confidence interval estimation, hypothesis testing, and regression analysis and forecasting. Additionally, it explores basic elements of data visualization through a variety of business discipline perspective; e.g., marketing, economics, production and operations management, human resources, etc.

Credits: 3