EMBA T711: Statistics for Analytics

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Pre-residency: July 10 (Mo) to September 16 (Sa)

Residency: September 17 (Su) to September 29 (Fr)

Post-residency: September 30 (Sa) to November 24 (Fr)

 

July 11 (Tu), 12-1:30 p.m.: Ninety-minute meeting with the class (all Module 1 instructors) on Zoom

July 18 (Tu), 5:30-7:30.: Two-hour meeting with Dr. Parlar to discuss the course content and the installation of R/Rcmdr and corrplot on Zoom

 

Class schedule (tentative) is on your Google/Outlook calendar as follows:

 

Class 1 (Pre-residency) : August 24 (Th) 5-9 p.m..

Class 2: September 18 (Mo), 1-4 p.m.

 Class 3: September 20 (We), 9-12 noon

Class 4: September 26 (Tu), 1-4 p.m

Class 5: September 27 (We), 1-4 p.m

 

 

 

Mahmut Parlar [Home page]

 

Permanent Office: DSB-425

Temporary RJC Office while teaching RJC-???

 

(DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Canada)

 

Cellphone use policy

 

But, the dancers in the Major Lazer / Nicki Minaj video look cool checking their cellphones

 

 

We will start the course by justifying the use of R and Rcmdr in business analytics. The following sessions will cover details of the most important topics.

 

Why R, and R Commander?

 

I. Basics. R functions for basic statistical models with Rcmdr

 

II. Regression. R functions for multiple regression and its ramifications

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

The material below will not be discussed in the EMBA class.

 

Session 3. Hierarchical and k-means cluster analysis with R