Modules Topics covered in this class

Overview of Business Analytics

1. Overview of Business Analytics

Purpose and objectives of BUS 619, analytical thinking and basic statistical concepts of data types and variables, data analysis methodology.

Categorical Data

2. Categorical Data

Statistics and anaytics for describing categorical data.

Numerical Data

3. Numerical Data

Statistics and anaytics for describing numerical data.

Time Series Data

4. Time Series Data

Describing time series data, naive time series forecasting, Forecasting project Part 1 workshop

Working with Distributions

5. Working with Distributions

Modeling data with distributions, data as evidence, data as calibration

Statistical Process Control

6. Statistical Process Control

Introduction to statistical process control for time series process.

Basics of Inferential Statistics

7. Basics of Inferential Statistics

Basic inferential statistical concepts of confidence interval estimation and hypothesis testing.

ANOVA

8. ANOVA

Relationships between numerical and categorical data.

Simple Linear Regression

9. Simple Linear Regression

Basic concepts of correlation, relationship between two numerical variables, simple linear regression, and regression analysis.

Residual Analysis

10. Residual Analysis

Checking regression assumptions, regression outliers, addressing regression model problems

Model Building

11. Model Building

Relationship between a numerical variable and multiple independent variables, constructing multivariate models, modeling problems and opportunities

Forecasting Project

12. Forecasting Project

A project to apply your analytic statistics skills to forecasting company revenue.

Six Sigma Certification

13. Six Sigma Certification

Materials and guidance on obtaining Six Sigma certifications.

Tutorials

14. Tutorials

Hands-on case study tutorials for Business Masters programs.

Syllabus

15. Syllabus

Overview of BUS 619, and some initial tasks to get set up and ready for the course.