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2022-2023 Graziadio Academic Catalog 
    
2022-2023 Graziadio Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

DESC 471 Statistical Methods for Business (4)


This course provides the student with the data analysis skills necessary to make business management decisions and conduct research. Specific topical areas include descriptive and inferential statistics, such as data organization, measures of central tendency and dispersion, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing, and parametric and non-parametric testing. Also covered are applied statistical topics such as decision analysis and forecasting (using simple and multiple regression). This course relies heavily on the use of Excel® and related software packages.