Exploring and Producing Data for Business Decision Making

This course provides an analytical framework to help you evaluate key problems in a structured fashion and will equip you with tools to better manage the uncertainties that pervade and complicate business processes. Specifically, you will learn how to summarize data and learn concepts of frequency, normal distribution, statistical studies, sampling, and confidence intervals. While you will be introduced to some of the science of what is being taught, the focus will be on applying the methodol

• Summarize large data sets in graphical, tabular, and numerical forms
• Understand the significance of proper sampling and why you can rely on sample information
• Use sample information to infer about the population with a certain level of confidence about the accuracy of the estimations
• Use Excel for statistical analysis