This course is designed to build a solid foundation in the analysis and interpretation of data. The tools and skills learned are not only very useful in preparing for future Booth courses, but also in understanding and using statistics encountered in business and everyday life.
The topics covered are: (i) graphical and visualization tools; (ii) modeling tools that are useful for understanding uncertainty, forecasting, and prediction (iii): methods for testing to see if a model is consistent with the real world data (iv) simple linear regression; and (v) multiple regression.
