EMBA T711: Statistics for Analytics

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Pre-residency: July 11 to September 17

Residency: September 18 to 30

Post-residency: October 1 to November 25

 

July 11 (M), 12 noon: One-hour meeting with the class (all Module 1 instructors) on Zoom

July 18 (M), 5-6 p.m.: One-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 25 (Th), 5-9 p.m.

Class 2: September 19 (M), 1-4 p.m.

Class 3: September 21 (W), 9-12 a.m.

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

Class 5: September 28 (W), 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