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Operations Analytics
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 4 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Subtitles in Chinese
Course details
Syllabus
- Week 1 - Introduction, Descriptive and Predictive Analytics
In this module you’ll be introduced to the Newsvendor problem, a fundamental operations problem of matching supply with demand in uncertain settings. You'll also cover the foundations of descriptive analytics for operations, learning how to use historical dema... - Week 2 - Prescriptive Analytics, Low Uncertainty
In this module, you'll learn how to identify the best decisions in settings with low uncertainty by building optimization models and applying them to specific business challenges. During the week, you’ll use algebraic formulations to concisely express optimiza... - Week 3 - Predictive Analytics, Risk
How can you evaluate and compare decisions when their impact is uncertain? In this module you will learn how to build and interpret simulation models that can help you to evaluate complex business decisions in uncertain settings. During the week, you will be i... - Week 4 - Prescriptive Analytics, High Uncertainty
This module introduces decision trees, a useful tool for evaluating decisions made under uncertainty. Using a concrete example, you'll learn how optimization, simulation, and decision trees can be used together to solve more complex business problems with high...
Prerequisite
Instructors
Senthil Veeraraghavan
Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions
The Wharton School
Sergei Savin
Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions
The Wharton School
Noah Gans
Anheuser-Busch Professor of Management Science, Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions
The Wharton School
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