DS 301: Introductory Business Statistics using Excel

Course Description

Introductory concepts and methods in data analysis and probability, together with their applications to business. Students will be introduced to the use of Excel@ to analyze data and communicate data to a business audience through statistical reports. Topics covered are data generation and categorization; visualizing data; numerical descriptive measures; basic probability; random variables (discrete and continuous); and an introduction to sampling methods and sampling distributions. (F,W,S)