Mar 28, 2024  
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GB 5040 - Quantitative Skills


The quantitative skills course examinies essential topics of differential calculus and basic statistics that are applied to quantitative coursework in an MBA program.  Among the topics covered are differential topics such as the ability to differentiate functions using the power, product, quotient, and chain rules.  The differential calculus is applied to determine optimal solutions to case problems.  Topics in statistics include a variety of descriptive and inferential  statistics and probabiity applications encountered in business decision-making.  The inferential statistics topics include: estimation, hypothesis testing using z and t tests, chi-square goodness-of-fit, ANOVA, regression, and applications using control charts.  Students who benefit most from this course are those who have been away from quantitative courses for a period of time and whose calculus and statistics skills need to be refreshed.  Students with very weak backgrounds are likely to be better served by enrolling in selected undergradu…

1.5 Credits



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