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BUSS4312: Business Analytics Honours A

2024 unit information

This unit covers advanced research-integrated coursework topics in optimisation and stochastic processes, such as convex optimisation, duality, approximation, statistical estimation, random walks and Markov chains, and Poisson and other stochastic processes.

Unit details and rules

Managing faculty or University school:

Business Analytics

Code BUSS4312
Academic unit Business Analytics
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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Students must meet the entry requirements to the Honours program, including completion of a pass undergraduate degree and a major in the specialisation area
Corequisites:
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BUSS4001 and BUSS4313
Prohibitions:
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None
Assumed knowledge:
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None

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. recognise/formulate problems as convex optimisation problems
  • LO2. develop code for problems of moderate size
  • LO3. characterise optimal solution, give limits of performance, etc.

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Semester 1 2024
Block mode Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
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Semester 1 2020
Block mode Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
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Semester 1 2021
Block mode Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
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Semester 1 2021
Block mode Remote
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Semester 1 2022
Block mode Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
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Semester 1 2022
Block mode Remote
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Semester 1 2023
Block mode Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
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Semester 1 2023
Block mode Remote
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