Course Details
Course Outline
5 days course
Setting the Scene and Observational Decision Making
- Setting the Quantitative Scene
- The Decision Support Role of Quantitative Methods in Management
- "Thinking Statistically" about Applications in Business Practice
- The Elements and Scope of Quantitative Management
- Data and the importance of Data Quality
Evidence-based Observational Decision Making
- Numeric descriptors to profile numeric sample data.
- Central and non-central location measures.
- Quantifying dispersion in sample data.
- Examine the distribution of numeric measures (skewness and bimodal).
- Exploring relationships between numeric descriptors.
- Breakdown analysis of numeric measures.
Statistical Decision Making – Drawing Inferences from Sample Data
- The foundations of statistical inference
- Quantifying uncertainty in data – the normal probability distribution
- The importance of sampling in inferential analysis
- Sampling methods (random-based sampling techniques)
- Understanding the sampling distribution concept
- Confidence interval estimation
Statistical Decision Making – Drawing Inferences from Hypotheses Testing
- The rationale of hypotheses testing
- The hypothesis testing process and types of errors
- Single population tests (tests for a single mean)
- Two independent population tests of means
- Matched pairs test scenarios
- Comparing means across multiple populations
Predictive Decision Making - Statistical Modeling and Data Mining
- Exploiting statistical relationships to build prediction-based models
- Model building using regression analysis
- Model building process – the rationale and evaluation of regression models
- Data mining overview – its evolution
- Descriptive data mining – applications in management
- Predictive (goal-directed) data mining – management applications
