Course Outline MSCI 609 Quantitative Data Analysis
Term and Year of offering: Fall 2015
Course Number and Title: MSCI 609 Quantitative Data Analysis 001
Instructor’s Name: Dr. Qi-Ming He
Course Description: See description in the Graduate Calendar
This course covers the basic topics in statistical data analysis including: descriptive statistics and probability concepts; discrete and continuous probability distributions; sampling methods and the central limit theorem; estimation and confidence intervals; inference and hypothesis testing; linear regression and correlation; and multiple regression and model building.
Course objectives:
Required Readings, Materials and Texts:
Walpole, Myers, Myers, and Ye, Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, 9th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2011. ISBN-978-0-321-62911-1
Software Microsoft EXCEL (add-in), Solver, and Analysis ToolPak
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