Quantitative Analysis

Catalog description

Welcome to Quantitative Analysis. This course provides you with the background for using a broad array of powerful analytic tools to make business decisions. The skills you acquire and sharpen in this course will enable you to make recommendations regarding key business decisions based on the application of quantitative models. In addition, these skills will also enhance your ability to communicate and to reason in work, academic, and personal situations. By learning which methods are appropriate to a given situation and by becoming familiar with the assumptions associated with each method, you will be able to evaluate the quality of business proposals made by others. The abilities and knowledge to be gained from this course will help you become a better-skilled decision maker and problem solver. A key ability is to use mathematical programming to make or confirm decisions instead of relying on rules of thumb, opinions, and expert judgment.