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Exploring and Producing Data for Business Decision Making
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- Fee-based Certificate
- 4 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Subtitles in Arabic
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Syllabus
- Week 1 - Course Orientation
You will become familiar with the course, your classmates, and our learning environment. The orientation will also help you obtain the technical skills required for the course. - Week 1 - Module 1: Introduction and Summarizing Data
Data is all around you, but what is the data telling you? The first step in making better decisions and taking action is to get a good understanding of information you have gathered. In this module we will learn about some of the tools in statistics that help ... - Week 2 - Module 2: Descriptive Statistics and Probability Distributions
We all have heard the phrase that a "picture is worth a thousand words," but you certainly don’t want one of those to be "what exactly am I looking at?" So, now that you know to use "pictures" to summarize your data, let’s make those pictures easier to underst... - Week 3 - Module 3: Sampling and Central Limit Theorem
You are charged with analyzing a market segment for your company. You and your team have figured out what variables you need to understand; you also have an idea what factors might be influencing these variables of interest. Now you are ready to do your analys... - Week 4 - Module 4: Inference
You have sample data and have done the analysis – you think you can say something about the population based on your sample study. But, do you have a sense of what are the chances of you being right or wrong? How can you be surer? What else should you have c...
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
Fataneh Taghaboni-Dutta
Clinical Professor of Business Administration
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign College of Business Department of Business Administration
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