OPTIMIZATION VIA MANAGEMENT SCIENCE.

Catalog description

Pre-requisites: DSCI 346 or permission of the instructor. Business analytics is a hybrid of information systems, applied statistics, management science, data analysis, operations research, consumer behavior, risk management, and decision support. The focus is on the optimization of spreadsheet decision models in a business environment. Topics may include linear programming, network modeling, goal programming, nonlinear programming, regression, data mining, forecasting, simulation, queuing theory, and decision analysis.