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2017-2018 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

DSE 5021G - Foundations of Statistical Analysis

Credits: 4
This course provides students with a foundation in statistical models, principles, and theory to support the analysis of data. Topics addressed in this course include variables and their properties, measurement scales, probability and probability distributions, sampling distributions, the Central Limit Theorem, Bayes Theorem, methods of computing and summarizing measures of central tendency and variance, and univariate and bivariate estimation and hypothesis testing procedures. Students will learn and apply the R and Python programming languages to mine data, perform statistical analyses on data sets, and prepare reports to address common data science and business research problems.