2018-2019 Academic Catalog 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
2018-2019 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

STAT 4450 - Foundations of Analytics


This course is designed to review or introduce the basic concepts of statistics and probability.  Students will learn how to collect data, calculate statistics to describe the data, and interpret the data to draw conclusions.  In the course the students will learn descriptive statistics, characteristics of discrete and continuous probability distributions, sampling distributions, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing.  The course will also cover linear regression and correlation.  Students will perform tasks in both MS Excel and SPSS.  This course will serve as a primer for the courses in Big Data Statistics.  

MSBA Students Only

 

Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered annually