Name: Descriptive Statistics for Business
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Course Overview

In order to uncover insights in data, it is important to draw conclusions about the population that is being studied using numerical measures. In this course, you will identify various numerical measures including percentiles, range, variance, and standard deviation. You will then see how to visualize and draw conclusions on quantitative or qualitative variables. This course uses tables and charts to compare combinations of variables, identify the means of finding relationships between variables, and teaches you to interpret results and make predictions between variables.

You are required to have completed the following course or have equivalent experience before taking this course:

Presenting Quantitative Data

Key Course Takeaways

Identify numerical measures such as percentiles, range, variance, and standard deviation
Discover additional tools available to describe data, as well as means of visualizing numerical measures
Use numerical measures in your own practice
Examine how to use tables and charts to compare combinations of variables, both qualitative and quantitative
Practice creating these visual comparisons on your own
Review guidelines for effectively communicating your findings, and then create research questions that can be answered visually
Identify the means of finding relationships between variables, and then practice calculating this relationship yourself
Analyze some issues you may encounter in interpreting your results
Predict the value of one variable based on another's value, and then make predictions between dependent and independent variables

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How It Works

Course Length

2 weeks

Effort

3-5 hours per week

Format

100% online, instructor-led

Course Author

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Cindy van Es

Professor of Practice

Cornell Dyson School

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Professor of Practice

Cindy van Es is Professor of Practice in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. She has a Ph.D. in statistics from Iowa State University and joined Cornell in 1988. Professor van Es teaches three courses in the undergraduate business program: Introductory Statistics, Business Statistics, and Impact Learning: South Africa. Her general area of interest is statistical education, with a focus on business applications and teaching through social justice examples.

Professor van Es currently serves as Director of Dyson’s Undergraduate Business Program. In this position, she provides strategic leadership and supervision on activities within the undergraduate program at the school, focusing specifically on implementation of the undergraduate curriculum and review of academic policies

Business Statistics

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Entry level to executive professionals looking to uncover insights from data
Students who are pre-MBA or considering earning an MBA
Individuals interested in moving into an analyst role
Individuals seeking to leverage statistical or analytic skills
New, emerging, and experienced leaders
Consultants
Analysts and researchers
Entrepreneurs

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