Business Forecasting

Catalog description

This course provides students with a background in programmatically analyzing data to create forecasts in a business setting. Students will learn a statistical programming language as well as smoothing, regression, and time-series techniques to create forecasts for business and economic variables and an evaluation of these techniques. Students will learn to navigate the acquisition of data from large databases and automate the reporting of results. P: BIA 261 and Jr. standing.