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Modeling Risk and Realities
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- Fee-based Certificate
- 4 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Subtitles in Portuguese
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Syllabus
- Week 1 - Week 1: Modeling Decisions in Low Uncertainty Settings
This module is designed to teach you how to analyze settings with low levels of uncertainty, and how to identify the best decisions in these settings. You'll explore the optimization toolkit, learn how to build an algebraic model using an advertising example, ... - Week 2 - Week 2: Risk and Reward: Modeling High Uncertainty Settings
What if uncertainty is the key feature of the setting you are trying to model? In this module, you'll learn how to create models for situations with a large number of variables. You'll examine high uncertainty settings, probability distributions, and risk, com... - Week 3 - Week 3: Choosing Distributions that Fit Your Data
When making business decisions, we often look to the past to make predictions for the future. In this module, you'll examine commonly used distributions of random variables to model the future and make predictions. You'll learn how to create meaningful data vi... - Week 4 - Week 4: Balancing Risk and Reward Using Simulation
This module is designed to help you use simulations to enabling compare different alternatives when continuous distributions are used to describe uncertainty. Through an in-depth examination of the simulation toolkit, you'll learn how to make decisions in high...
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
Sergei Savin
Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions
The Wharton School
Senthil Veeraraghavan
Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions
The Wharton School
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