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Sharad Borle

The Business Statistics and Analysis Specialization is designed to equip you with a basic understanding of business data analysis tools and techniques. Informed by our world-class Data Science master's and PhD course material, you’ll master essential spreadsheet functions, build descriptive business data measures, and develop your aptitude for data modeling. You’ll also explore basic probability concepts, including measuring and modeling uncertainty, and you’ll use various data distributions, along with the Linear Regression Model, to analyze and inform business decisions. The Specialization culminates with a Capstone Project in which you’ll apply the skills and knowledge you’ve gained to an actual business problem.

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The Business Statistics and Analysis Specialization is designed to equip you with a basic understanding of business data analysis tools and techniques. Informed by our world-class Data Science master's and PhD course material, you’ll master essential spreadsheet functions, build descriptive business data measures, and develop your aptitude for data modeling. You’ll also explore basic probability concepts, including measuring and modeling uncertainty, and you’ll use various data distributions, along with the Linear Regression Model, to analyze and inform business decisions. The Specialization culminates with a Capstone Project in which you’ll apply the skills and knowledge you’ve gained to an actual business problem.

To successfully complete all course assignments, students must have access to a Windows version of Microsoft Excel 2010 or later.

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Five courses

Introduction to Data Analysis Using Excel

(0 hours)
The use of Excel is widespread in the industry. It is a very powerful data analysis tool and almost all big and small businesses use Excel in their day-to-day functioning. This is an introductory course in the use of Excel and is designed to give you a working knowledge of Excel with the aim of getting to use it for more advanced topics in Business Statistics later.

Basic Data Descriptors, Statistical Distributions, and Application to Business Decisions

(0 hours)
The ability to understand and apply Business Statistics is becoming increasingly important in the industry. This course is designed to introduce you to Business Statistics. We begin with the notion of descriptive statistics, which is summarizing data using a few numbers. Different categories of descriptive measures are introduced and discussed along with the Excel functions to calculate them.

Business Applications of Hypothesis Testing and Confidence Interval Estimation

(4 hours)
Confidence intervals and hypothesis tests are important tools in business statistics. They help enhance decision-making and measure risk in business processes.

Linear Regression for Business Statistics

(4 hours)
Regression Analysis is the most important Business Statistics tool used in the industry. It's used for forecasting and prediction. This course introduces you to Linear Regression. You will learn to apply procedures such as dummy variable regressions, transforming variables, and interaction effects. All these are introduced and explained using easy to understand examples in Microsoft Excel.

Business Statistics and Analysis Capstone

(4 hours)
The Business Statistics and Analysis Capstone is an opportunity to apply skills developed in the specialization to real-life data. The Capstone uses publicly available ‘Housing Data’ to pose questions a client would ask a data analyst.

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