This course provides EMBA students with an overview of data analysis and business analytics. Emphasis is on developing new insights from data, while building effective communication of results to a broad spectrum of individuals. Contemporary data analysis tools will support descriptive and inferential statistical analysis as well as visualization and model building.

This course introduces concepts for interpreting and analyzing data as a tool for assisting managers in making complex business decisions. Topics to be covered include: review of descriptive statistics, normal distribution, sampling distributions, estimation, test of hypothesis for single and two populations, linear regression, multiple regression and model building. The application of appropriate statistical tools will be required.