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This unit highlights the importance of statistical methods and tools for today's managers and analysts and demonstrates how to apply these methods to business problems using real-world data. The quantitative skills that students learn in this unit are useful in all areas of business. Through taking this unit students learn how to model and analyse the relationships within business data; how to identify the appropriate statistical technique in different business environments; how to compute statistics by hand and using special purpose software; how to interpret results in the context of the business problem; and how to forecast using business data. The unit is taught through data-driven examples, exercises and business case studies.
Code | QBUS5001 |
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Academic unit | Business Analytics |
Credit points | 6 |
Prerequisites:
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None |
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Corequisites:
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None |
Prohibitions:
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ECMT5001 or QBUS5002 |
Assumed knowledge:
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Students should be capable of reading data in tabulated form and working with Microsoft EXCEL and doing High School level of mathematics |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
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