analytics level I
Course Description
Prerequisites: excel level II
Probability and statistics is the discipline of collecting, organizing, analyzing, interpreting and presenting data with the expressed purpose of quantifying uncertainty. This course will focuses on how you can use probability and statistics to add confidence to your business decisions and recommendations.
Increasingly, businesses want methodical, justifiable approaches to business decisions. In this series, we provide you the knowledge and tools necessary to implement probabilistic and statistical methods to make the right business decision despite uncertainty.
Participants will take away from this course a new appreciation and understanding of the power of probabilistic and statistical methods in solving real-world business problems. Most importantly, participants will see how these techniques can be used in their day-to-day decision making.
Course Agenda
Session 1: Introduction to the Data Lifecycle
Session 2: Introduction to Statistics & Probability
Session 3: Continuous vs Discrete Variables & Distributions
Session 4: Data Visualizations
Session 5: Parametric & Non-parametric distributions
Session 6: Intro to Experimental Design