Statistics for Business -I
offered by IIM Bangalore

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Statistics for Business -I
at
IIM Bangalore
Overview

Duration	7 weeks
Mode of learning	Online
Official Website	Go to Website
Credential	Certificate

Statistics for Business -I
at
IIM Bangalore
Highlights

Earn a certificate after completion of the course

Statistics for Business -I
at
IIM Bangalore
Course details

Skills you will learn

Business Analysis Retail Statistics Data visualization

Who should do this course?

For practising manager

For an entrepreneur who wants to analyse business data

What are the course deliverables?

Analyse a dataset using spreadsheet software

Examine datasets to answer pertinent business questions

Clean up a dataset and summarise the data using single point measures of centrality and dispersion

Classify variables by scale and aggregate them with pivot tables

Explain probability, joint and marginal probability, conditional probability

Apply Bayes rule to invert probabilities on a decision tree

More about this course

This IIMBx course Statistics for Business – I is Part 1 of the two-part series on Business Statistics and is ideal for learners who wish to enrol in business programs

These two courses cover topics in Descriptive Statistics. Spreadsheets containing real data from diverse areas such as economics, finance, and HR drive much of the discussions that are part of the course

Participants will learn all these concepts with the help of various demonstrations that show their real-life application business-related situations

Statistics for Business -I
at
IIM Bangalore
Curriculum

Introduction to course

Introduction to the subject statistics

Spreadsheet tutorial

Descriptive Statistics

Sources of data

Data preparation

Summary statistics

Summarising Variables

Variables and scales

Summarising variables

Visualization Techniques

Histograms

Correlation

Retail Demo

Numerical Data

Skewness

Kurtosis

Boxplots

Probability

Framework

Joint and marginal

Conditional

Bayes Theorem

Bayes rule

Decision tree

Statistics for Business -I
at
IIM Bangalore
Faculty details

Shankar Venkatagiri

Shankar Venkatagiri is a member of the Information Systems area at IIM Bangalore since 2002. Prior to this, he worked as a consultant with Sapient Corporation, Cambridge and Reuters Consulting, Boston. He also developed solutions at an MIT start-up called Curl Corporation.