Business Statistics and Data Analysis

Every year humans are producing more and more data. The central challenge businesses and individuals face making sense of all this data we are now confronted with. This class will help introduces you to essential tools for making sense of data.

Course Content:

Introduction to Statistics,

Descriptive Statistics (Part 1 – Tables and Graphs),

Descriptive Statistics (Part 2 – Numerical Statistics),

Introduction to Probability, Probability (focus on the normal distribution),

Sampling Distributions,

Confidence Intervals,

Hypothesis Testing,

Chi Squared Test of Independence,

Regression.

The application and interpretation of Microsoft Excel is a key part of this course.