Business Statistics

Course code MGMT 1009

Credit 3.0

Length 45.0 hours

Course outline View

In the business world, it is important to turn ever-increasing amounts of data into useful information that can be easily seen and understood. In this course students will learn the fundamental principles and practices of business data analysis and how to communicate business intelligence in visual formats. Working with a variety of data sources and software, students will learn make sense of quantitative business data by discerning meaningful patterns, trends, relationships and exceptions that reveal business performance, potential problems and opportunities.

Prerequisites

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What you will learn

  • 1. Introduction to Statistics and Data Analytics
  • 2. Organizing data and creating visualizations
  • 3. Measures of location and variation
  • 4. Correlations and regression
  • 5. Probability
  • 6. Discrete Distributions
  • 7. Normal Distribution
  • 8. Sampling Distribution
  • 9. Estimation
  • 10. Hypothesis testing

How to register

This course is offered as part of a VCC program only.

Course schedules

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Contact us

If you have any question, please email at advising@vcc.ca.

† This information is intended as a guideline only. Program and course details are subject to change with the approval of VCC's Board of Governors.

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