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Duration

23 hours

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Beginner

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  • Offered By University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Learn from eminent faculty of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • 50% got a pay increase or promotion
  • 50% got a tangible career benefit from this course
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  • This course provides an analytical framework to help you evaluate key problems in a structured fashion and will equip you with tools to better manage the uncertainties that pervade and complicate business processes. Specifically, you will be introduced to statistics and how to summarize data and learn concepts of frequency, normal distribution, statistical studies, sampling, and confidence intervals

Exploring and Producing Data for Business Decision Making
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Curriculum

WEEK-1: Course Orientation

Welcome to Exploring and Producing Data for Business Decision Making!

Excel Data Analysis Toolpak

Module 1: Introduction and Summarizing Data

Basic Terminology

Summarizing Data: Frequency Tables

Frequency Tables in Excel: Quantitative Data

Frequency Tables in Excel: Qualitative Data

Presenting Frequency Tables as a Bar Graph in Excel

Summarizing Data: Histograms

Histograms in Excel

Summarizing Data: Pie Charts

Pie Charts in Excel

Summarizing Data: Scatter Plots

Scatter Plots in Excel

WEEK-2 Descriptive Statistics and Probability Distributions

Measures of Central Tendencies

Mean and Median in Excel

Measures of Dispersion

Standard Deviation in Excel

Percentiles and Z-Score

Z-Score in Exce

Discrete and Continuous Random Variables

Expected Value in Excel

Normal Distribution

Normal Distribution in Excel

Standard Normal Distribution in Excel

"Less Than" in Excel

"Greater Than" in Excel

"Between Values" in Excel

Finding Z for a Given Probability (INV) in Excel

Standard Normal Distribution Table

WEEK-3- Sampling and Central Limit Theorem

Producing Data

Sampling

Sampling Function in Excel

Central Limit Theorem and Sampling Means

Animating the Central Limit Theorem

Sampling Distribution and Empirical Rule in Excel

Central Limit Theorem Sampling Proportion

WEEK-4 Inference

Confidence Interval Basics1

Confidence Interval for Means

Confidence Interval for Mean in Excel

Impact of Confidence Level Illustrated in Exce

Confidence Interval for Population Proportion

Confidence Interval for Population Proportion in Excel

Confidence Interval Animation in Excel

Starting Salary Example in Excel

Sample Size

Sample Size Proportion in Excel

Sample Size Mean in Excel

Sample Size Effect in Excel

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