STAT 461 - Data Analysis

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: STAT 261 or STAT 366 or BANA 206
This course provides hands-on applications of analytics for decision-making and forecasting. Examples are from social media analytics, business analytics, sports analytics, and other data-oriented disciplines. It will focus on extracting information from up-to-date data. Topics will include databases, data visualization, smoothing splines, data transformation, and applications of regression analysis. It will introduce statistical packages of data analytics in R.