Statistics for Business - II - Indian Institute of Management

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Examine data drawn from allied fields of business such as Finance and HR, and learn how to simulate data to follow a specified distribution.With this course you earn while you learn, you gain recognized qualifications, job specific skills and knowledge and this helps you stand out in the job market.

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About this course

Basic Algebra and some Calculus

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Subjects

  • Statistics
  • Business
  • Descriptive Statistics
  • Inferential Statistics
  • Statistical programming

Course programme

Statistics is a versatile discipline that has revolutionized the fields of business, engineering, medicine and pure sciences. This course is Part 2 of a 4-part series on Business Statistics, and is ideal for learners who wish to enroll in business programs. The first two parts cover topics in Descriptive Statistics, whereas the next two focus on Inferential Statistics. Spreadsheets containing real data from diverse areas such as economics, finance and HR drive much of our discussions. In Part 2, we use the language of probability to examine the underlying distributions of random variables. We model real-life phenomena using known variables such as Binomial, Poisson and Normal. We learn how to simulate data that are distributed according to these variables. We shall take up datasets that have over a million rows, which makes it difficult to analyze using a spreadsheet. This is a natural setting for R, an advanced statistical programming platform. We incorporate helpful tutorials to get learners acquainted with the platform.

Additional information

Shankar Venkatagiri Shankar Venkatagiri is a faculty member in the Quantitative Methods & Information Systems area at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He is a mathematician and a computer scientist by training, and has worked in IT consulting around Boston, prior to pursuing an academic career. Shankar has taught courses in statistics to students at the graduate and doctoral levels at IIM Bangalore. He frequently interacts with industry in various capacities. Shankar's interests lie in analytics and cloud computing.

Statistics for Business - II - Indian Institute of Management

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