College: Columbia University
Certificate Price: $249
Length: 12 Weeks
Instructors: Vineet Goyal

Data, Models and Decisions in Business Analytics

In today’s world, managerial decisions are increasingly based on data-driven models and analysis using statistical and optimization methods that have dramatically changed the way businesses operate in most domains including service operations, marketing, transportation, and finance.

The main objectives of this course are the following:

Introduce fundamental techniques towards a principled approach for data-driven decision-making.
Quantitative modeling of dynamic nature of decision problems using historical data, and
Learn various approaches for decision-making in the face of uncertainty
Topics covered include probability, statistics, regression, stochastic modeling, and linear, nonlinear and discrete optimization.

Most of the topics will be presented in the context of practical business applications to illustrate its usefulness in practice.

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