1. What’s Needed in a Second Statistics Class to Prepare Undergraduates for a Data Analytics Environment?
A Panel Discussion at
Decision Sciences Institute
2017 Annual Conference
Washington, DC
November 18th, 2017
Weiyong Zhang
Strome College of Business
Old Dominion University

2. What is a second statistics course?
Many schools have Stat I & Stat II
Stat I: Descriptive statistics
Stat II: Inferential statistics
Choices of a second statistics course
A course in a specific subject/area, e.g., forecasting, simulation.
A course in the big data context.
A capstone course that focuses on application.

3. BNAL 415: Advanced Business Analytics
Issue 1: How much statistics vs. application?
Issue 2: How much modeling vs. software training?
Issue 3: What about soft skills?