Statistics for Business & Econ (STBE)

This course provides students the opportunity to develop quantitative insights and problem-solving skills relevant to success in business and life. Key topics include the role of functions, linear systems and optimization. Students will develop skills in the visual display, written expression, and oral presentation of analytic findings.

Principles and applications of descriptive and inferential statistics. Topics covered are data summarization, measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion, fundamental principles of probability, discrete and continuous probability distributions, calculation of z and t scores, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, ANOVA, correlation and regression, non-parametric statistics and decision theory. *An additional course fee will be charged.