1. What Statistical Knowledge Should Students Know to Prepare for Graduate Business Analytics?
Jeffrey D. Camm Wake Forest University School of Business

2. What they will take @ Wake Forest

3. This course provides an introduction to the theory, principles, and application of statistical and other quantitative techniques that are needed to make data driven decisions.

4. What do we want the students to know?
At the end of this course, you should be able to:
Recognize the appropriate statistical method to apply in different analysis situations
Properly interpret the output from a statistical analysis
Use Excel and other statistical software to carry out the analysis of data

5. Specific Topics: What’s in?
Visualizing Data
Summarizing Data Numerically
Laws of Probability
Probability Distributions
Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Testing
Linear Regression including assumption validation
Software: Excel – SAS - R

6. Specific Topics: What’s out?

7. The Answer to the Original Question Should Depend on the Goals/Positioning of the Program