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2012-2014 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

BUS 6201 - Forecasting and Data Analysis for Decision Making

(EC 4001)
(3)

This course will provide students with the practical business and market research tools required for today’s data-driven decision needs. Understanding your products, customers, competitors, employees and processes is essential to achieve competitive advantage. These business intelligence tools include market research, data mining, forecasting, financial modeling and industry research. This course will focus on the processes and analysis of data using software, not the mathematics. The graduate-level course requires independent, accelerated, or additional work appropriate for the graduate level. Not available for credit for those who have taken EC 4000 or EC 4001.

Prerequisite: Six hours of undergraduate economics (EC 1000 and EC 1100, or EC 1050 or EC 1150, or EC 4550; introductory statistics, and skills in using Windows-based software.