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. To this end, the course aims to cover statistical ideas that apply to managers by discussing two basic themes: first, is recognizing and describing variations present in everything around us, and then modeling and making decisions in the presence of these variations. The fundamental concepts studied in this course will reappear in many other classes and business settings. Our focus will be on interpreting the meaning of the results in a business and managerial setting.
This course is part of the Managerial Economics and Business Analysis Specialization

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- Statistical Inference
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- Statistical Hypothesis Testing
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Course Orientation
Module 1: Hypothesis Testing
Module 2: Statistical Inference Based on Two Samples
Module 3: Simple Linear Regression
Module 4: Multiple Linear Regression
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TOP REVIEWS FROM INFERENTIAL AND PREDICTIVE STATISTICS FOR BUSINESS
Concepts are well explained with very good examples.Also doing it in excel makes it easier.
Thanks!Great course for beginners
Enjoyed this course very much. The content was explained very well, and I feel empowered to take what I've learned immediately to my company and draw meaning insights.
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VERY WELL DOCUMENTED AND CHALLENGING PACE AS WELL AS HIGH LEVEL OF EXAMPLES AND TESTS
Excellent course. The lectures by Prof. Dutta were clear and to the point. This course helped me in clarifying a lot of doubts.
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