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Statistics for Business – I
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 5 Sequences
- Intermediate Level
- Subtitles in Spanish, Hindi, Chinese
Course details
Syllabus
- To download data from prominent Internet sources
- To analyse a dataset using spreadsheet software
- To pose pertinent business questions of datasets and to answer them
- To clean up a dataset and summarize the data using single point measures of centrality and dispersion
- To classify variables by scale and aggregate them with pivot tables
- To build an understanding of probability, joint and marginal probability, conditional probability
- To apply Bayes rule to invert probabilities on a decision tree
Prerequisite
Basic Algebra and some Calculus
Instructors
Shankar Venkatagiri
Faculty Member in the Quantitative Methods & Information Systems
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Editor
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore ( IIM Bangalore or IIMB ) is a public business school and institute of national importance located in Bangalore, India. Founded in 1973, it was the third IIM to be established, after IIM Calcutta and IIM Ahmedabad.
The institute offers postgraduate, doctoral, executive education and certificate programmes.
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