Mahmut Parlar, Ph.D.

Distinguished University Professor | Distinguished Business Research Professor

Professor of Management Science

Operations Management Area
DeGroote School of Business (DSB-425), McMaster University
1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4M4 Canada
1 (905) 525-9140, Ext. 22858

CORS 2018 Award of Merit  | "Difference Maker"

MBA Teaching Award (2014)   |   President's Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision (2013)

Publications

Citations, Research Impact and Other Awards

NSERC Discovery (Research) Grants  |  Research Program

Ph.D. Students [NOTICE FOR 2023-2024]  |  Editorial Appointments

[BOOK] * Interactive Operations Research with Maple  |  Degrees

Course (and Workshop) Websites

2023

EMBA T711 - 2023 : Fall 2023 | Statistics for Analytics [This material will be accesible from Avenue to Learn]

Previous Years

2022

EMBA T711 - 2022 : Fall 2022 | Statistics for Analytics [This material will be accesible from Avenue to Learn]

2021

EMBA T711 - 2021 : Fall 2021 | Statistics for Analytics [This material will be accesible from Avenue to Learn]

2020

EMBA T711 - 2020 : Fall 2020 | Statistics for Analytics [This material will be accesible from Avenue to Learn.]

2019

EMBA T711 - 2019 : September 17, 18, 23, 24, 25 | Statistics for Analytics [This material will be accesible from Avenue to Learn.]

Workshop at Bilkent: June 14, 2019 | Business Analytics with R and R Commander (Faculty of Business Administration, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey). In this workshop I am planning to describe how I use R/Rcmdr in my Executive MBA Statistics class I teach at the DeGroote School of Business. [Link]

2018

EMBA T711 - 2018 : September 18, 19, 24, 25, 26 |  Statistics for Analytics [This material will be accesible from Avenue to Learn.]

MFIN 604 Workshop : August 28, 29 | MFin Transition Week for MFin 604  MegaStat, R, and R Commander for Master of Finance students.

MFin 604: Software Installations

MFin 604: MegaStat on Windows (Also works on Mac)

Install MegaStat 10.4 : You will need to register or purchase MegaStat.

Note: To access MegaStat please type in the first word of Learning Objective 3 (LO3) in Chapter 3, in the LO summary at the beginning of the chapter, as the Username and Password.

MFin 604: Visual Statistics Examples

Central Limit Theorem by Visual Statistics, Chapter 8: Properties of Estimators.

Confidence Intervals by Visual Statistics, Chapter 9: One-Sample Hypothesis Tests.

April 20, 2018| Ph.D. DDSA Research Day

Life In The Academia (slides)   |   Periodic report   |   Elevator paper (first page)   | Free-shipping paper (first page)   |   FT50 list [web]   |   NRL paper with revisions and our responses to referees    |   Double submission!   |   Somerset Maugham [web]

2017

Fall | Ph.D. (Bus Q782) Dynamic Programming and Optimal Control (The materials for this course are now on McMaster's "Avenue to Learn")

Fall | Ph.D. (Bus Q771) Stochastic Processes with Business Applications (The materials for this course are now on McMaster's Avenue to Learn)

Fall |  MFin (MFin 604) Statistics with Financial Applications (The materials for this course are now on McMaster's Avenue to Learn)

September 23-27 | EMBA (T711) Statistics for Analytics [This material will be accesible from Avenue to Learn.]

September 11-14 | MBA (L611): Business Statistics Foundations (MODULE 1: ANALYSIS) [This material is accesible from Avenue to Learn.]

September 5 | MFin  (Workshop) MegaStat, R, and R Commander for Master of Finance students.

2016

Fall |  Ph.D. (Bus Q783) Game Theory and Decision Analysis (The materials for this course are now on McMaster's "Avenue to Learn")

Fall |  Master of Finance (MFin 604) Statistics with Financial Applications (The materials for this course are now on McMaster's "Avenue to Learn")

September 21, 24, 25 and 26 | EMBA (T711) Statistics for Analytics [This material will be accesible from Avenue to Learn.]

September 12-15 | M.B.A. (Bus L611) : Foundations, MODULE 1: ANALYSIS (Data Analytics/Statistics) [This material is accesible from Avenue to Learn.]

September 2 | Master of Finance (Workshop) MegaStat, R, and R Commander for Master of Finance students

June 21-23 | Ph.D. (Workshop)  Business Analytics with R and R Commander (Zaragoza Logistics Centre Summer Academy, Spain)

2015

Fall | M.B.A. (Bus Q600) Applied Statistics for Business (The materials for this course are now on McMaster's "Avenue to Learn")

Fall | Ph.D. (Bus Q771) Stochastic Processes with Business Applications (The materials for this course are now on McMaster's "Avenue to Learn")

September 3 and 8 | Master of Finance (Workshop) R and R Commander for Master of Finance students

July 29, 31 and August 3 | Ph.D. (Workshop) Business Analytics with R and R Commander (National University of Singapore, Decision Sciences)

2014

Fall | M.B.A. (Bus Q600) Applied Statistics for Business (The materials for this course are now on McMaster's "Avenue to Learn")

Fall |  Ph.D. (Bus Q783) Game Theory and Decision Analysis (The materials for this course are now on McMaster's "Avenue to Learn")

May 9 | Master of Finance (MFin 604) Statistics Workshop (ANOVA and Nonparametric Statistics)

In this three-hour workshop (9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in DSB-B107), we will cover the basics of ANOVA and nonparametric statistics.

May 1 | Ph.D. Research Day @ DeGroote

Life In The Academia (slides)  |  NRL paper with revisions  |  FT45 list  |  Elevator paper (first page)  |  Free-shipping paper (first page)  |  Periodic report  |  Somerset Maugham

2013

Fall | M.B.A. (Bus Q600) Applied Statistics for Business

Fall | Ph.D. (Bus Q771) Stochastic Processes with Business Applications