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About the Course

The ability to understand and apply Business Statistics is becoming increasingly important in the industry. A good understanding of Business
Statistics is a requirement to make correct and relevant interpretations of data. Lack of knowledge could lead to erroneous decisions which
could potentially have negative consequences for a firm. This course is designed to introduce you to Business Statistics. We begin with the
notion of descriptive statistics, which is summarizing data using a few numbers. Different categories of descriptive measures are introduced
and discussed along with the Excel functions to calculate them. The notion of probability or uncertainty is introduced along wi...
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SA

Oct 17, 2021

The course was fun and easy to follow through and i liked that when encountered with problem there is a discussion forum where facilitators and fellow students helped in solving it.thank you professor

SN

Aug 20, 2021

T​his was a really enjoyable course, but challenging too. I struggled a bit with the final assignment, but nailed it in the end. My statistical knowledge base has indeed been enhanced by this course.

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By Catherine S

May 21, 2020

A bit slow but well explained which make it somewhat easy.

By David A

Aug 2, 2020

that was a lot harder than course 1 and really tests you.

By Harsha M

Apr 23, 2019

Very nice course, helped to clear my basic understanding.

By Patrick W

Jul 5, 2019

Useful refresher for business context of statistics

By Renier B

Dec 2, 2019

Good course, learned some really new applications.

By Kim K

Aug 8, 2018

Rigorous and rewarding when you put the work in.

By Sanmay M

Mar 28, 2022

some questions in exam are not very clear

By Surapa K

Oct 14, 2019

short, concise, informative and practical

By Beāta K

Jan 9, 2021

The feedback from lecturers is missing.

By VAIBHAV A J

Jun 4, 2020

need more practice sums with each video

By Joshua A

Jun 8, 2022

very tough and exciting course.......

By Alok T

Dec 23, 2021

helped me with my collage course also

By Charles E

Aug 28, 2024

great foundational statistics class.

By Jeonghwan J

Jul 18, 2018

good to understand and explaination

By saint g

Mar 6, 2024

The lecturer was concise and clear

By NIKHIL S

Jul 15, 2020

It was a very informative course.

By Alfonso R

Jun 16, 2019

Excelente course, I recommend it.

By shahabuddin m s

Sep 1, 2020

Great course! great learning

By Allen L

Jul 19, 2020

Very basic. Easy to learn.

By Aditya S

Dec 3, 2020

Sensational course!

By Lluis B P

May 12, 2020

Very useful course

By ENWOROM C E

Jun 13, 2020

VERY INSIGHTFUL!

By Amritanshu S

Oct 1, 2021

it's difficult

By Dr. C J

Oct 15, 2019

Great content

By Vipin J

Jan 9, 2021

Good course