Schedule

MBA 7025 - Statistical Business Analysis

Session	Date	Topic	Assignment Due	Reading Assignment
I) Exploratory Data Analysis / Descriptive Statistics
1)	1/13/15 (T)	Introduction Course Introduction Overview - Statistical Business Analysis? Lynda.com - Interactive Video Technology Training	Groups Formed	Chapter 1 - Introduction to Data Analysis and Decision Making The nature of modeling for decision-making
2)	1/20/15 (T)	Breakeven Analysis Overview of Breakeven and Crossover Breakeven Analysis - Ans Charts & Graphs Displaying Data: Charts & Graphs Supplemental Note - Tutorial on Charts and Graphs Supplemental Note - Graphing Data and Curve Fitting Supplemental Note - Tutorial on Pivot Tables Supplemental Note - Excel Database functions		Chapter 2 - Describing the Distribution of a Single Variable Chapter 3 - Finding Relationships Among Variables
3)	1/27/15 (T)	Descriptive Statistics Descriptive Statistics Mean, Standard Deviation, etc. Central Limit, Confidence Intervals Obtaining Descriptive Summary Measures Supplemental Note - Descriptive Statistics (Khan Academy) Supplemental Note - Central Limit Theorem (Khan Academy) Supplemental Note - Confidence Interval (Khan Academy) Supplemental Note - Confidence Interval Examples (Khan Academy)		Chapter 7 - Sampling and Sampling Distributions Chapter 8 - Confidence Interval Estimation
4)	2/3/15 (T)	Hypothesis Testing Hypothesis Testing Example Chi-Squared Tests Supplemental Note - Hypothesis Testing (Khan Academy)		Chapter 9 - Hypothesis Testing
5)	2/10/15 (T)	Test 1
II) Regression Analysis / Time Series Forecasting
6)	2/17/15 (T)	Forecasting Introduction to forecasting	Assignment 1 Brightspace Sample Data	Chapter 12 - Time Series Analysis and Forecasting Simple Forecasting Models
7)	2/24/15 (T)	Regression Modeling Overview of Regression A casual forecasting example Supplemental Note - Linear Regression and Excel Supplemental Note - Excel Regression Supplemental Note - Interpretation		Chapter 10 - Regression Analysis: Estimating Relationship
	3/3/15 (T)	Last Day to Withdraw and possibly receive a "WP" for full semester classes.
8)	3/3/15 (T)	Regression Modeling Simple Regression Quadratic Regression LogY Regression Supplemental Note - Regression (Khan Academy) Supplemental Note - Data Analysis and Statistical Inference (Coursera)		Chapter 10 - Regression Analysis: Estimating Relationship
9)	3/10/15 (T)	Test 2
	3/17/15 (T)	Spring Break (No class)
III) Decision Analysis
10)	3/24/15 (T)	Business Intelligence Overview of Business Intelligence How to Build Successful BI Strategy? Data Mining Data Warehousing & Data Mining	Assignment 2 Brightspace	Business Intelligence: The Missing Link
11)	3/31/15 (T)	Decision Support Systems Introduction to Decision Support Systems Management Dashboards		Best Practices for creating Effective Dashboards
12)	4/7/15 (T)	Decision Analysis Decision Analysis Decision Making Joint Probabilities Table Decision trees Bayes Theorem Supplemental Note - Joint Probability Table Supplemental Note - Probability (Khan Academy)		Chapter 4 - Probability & Probability Distribution
13)	4/14/15 (T)	Test 3
IV) Simulation
14)	4/21/15 (T)	Simulation Simulation Overview of Monte-Carlo Simulation Random variables Probability distributions Simulating Discrete Variables Continuous Variables	Assignment 3 Brightspace	Chapter 15 - Introduction to Simulation Modeling Chapter 16 - Simulation Models
	4/28/15 (T)	Comprehensive Department Common Final Exam MBA 7025 Sample Final Exam