Prescriptive Analytics

Catalog description

The purpose of the course is to provide an in-depth treatment of quantitative techniques that are useful for data analysis and management decision-making. The main topics of the course are optimization methods, advanced regression techniques, advanced time series analysis and some basic techniques in data mining. The emphasis of the course is on the practical application of analytical techniques to problems from different functional areas of business. Example applications include marketing research, sports analytics, supply chain procurement, and financial portfolio selection.