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Dec 06, 2025
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MBA 6320 - Descriptive Analytics
Business analytics can be subcategorized into three primary fields of study. These fields include descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics. Descriptive analytics serves as a foundation to all other forms of analytics. The primary goal of this course is to provide students with the skills to effectively summarize, visualize, and manage data within software environments that are commonly used in various business contexts. In this course, topics include, but are not limited to, measures of central location, measures of dispersion, probability distributions, hypothesis tests, as well as data visualization.
Requisites: Admission to COB graduate or certificate program or permission
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to create and interpret tables, charts, and descriptive statistics that summarize data.
- Students will be able to calculate and interpret a variety of descriptive statistics.
- Students will be able to implement statistical, logical, and other formulas within a software environment.
- Students will be able to calculate probabilities from statistical distributions.
- Students will be able to conduct, interpret, and make inferences about hypothesis tests.
- Students will be able to conduct, interpret, and implement simple and multiple linear regression.
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