STA 758 - Introductory Statistics for Business Research

(3 Credits)

This course covers a variety of foundational statistical techniques that support doctoral research in business. Basic statistical concepts will be reviewed and the students will be introduced to methods of organizing, interpreting, and presenting data. Students will be introduced to descriptive and visual univariate and bivariate statistics in Excel and R. They will learn the laws of probability, become familiar with the major families of discrete and continuous random variables, and study sampling, the foundation of inferential statistics.