Statistics for MBA, EMBA, CFA and PMP

Formation Project Management - Statistics for MBA, EMBA, CFA and PMP in Geneva, Zurich, Huston, San-Antonio, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco and anywhere in Switzerland, USA, Great Britain and Germany.

525.-/d

ID : 920

Goal : The aim of this training is to enhance your data analysis and model-building skills, not to transform you into expert management scientists, nor statisticians, by the end of this training. Rather, you should have mastered a set of skills which will enable you to approach a large range of problems in a more structured way. Equally important, you should become informed and critical users of quantitative tools developed for you by others, whether by in-house specialists or external consultants. You should have gained the confidence to look behind their numbers at the underlying assumptions, and challenge these where appropriate.

Audience : Executives, Managers or Project Managers who need to make and undserstand statistics from MBA or EMBA program.

Prerequisites : Bachelor level in mathematics (integration and derivates have to be mastered).

Goals :

- Introduction

- Why study statistics?

- Statistics applications in real life (finance, communications, industry, insurance, r&d, etc.)

- Typical statistics traps

- What is a random variable?

- What is a population?

- What is a random sample?

- Conditional probability law

- Mean and variance

- Properties of mean and variance (and covariance)

- Conditional mean and variance

- Discrete and continuous probability distributions

- Law of large numbers

- What is the Central Limit Theorem?

- What is an estimator?

- What are desirable properties of an estimator?

- Simulation of variables

- What is a confidence interval?

- How to build a confidence interval for the mean of a population?

- The chi-squared adjustment test

- ...

Pedagogical method : Practical training based on real business cases with MS Excel and/or Minitab.

Suggested duration for presentiel training (days) : 15

Suggested duration for on-line training (days) : 18

Daily price in face-to-face : 525 CHF

Daily price in remote : 252 CHF

Daily price in remote for students : contact us (only if student card!)

Daily price in remote (with recording) : 2625 CHF

Prices are per day per trainee without course material, without certificate, without evaluation, without exam, without training room or computer (these are each optional and must be requested in addition in the contact form for the establishment of the quote).

Tags : mba, emba, statistics, calculations, test hypothesis, forecasting.

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