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BAN 704

Applied Data Science

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelGraduate
Average gradeA-
Standard

Overview

Description

This course introduces several important modeling approaches for solving decision-making problems. The first part of the course focuses on statistical learning. The second part of the course introduces machine learning and decision-making under uncertainty.

Requirements

Prerequisites

  • Admission to the MSBA program
BAN 701
Original catalog text

Prerequisites

Admission to the MSBA program; BAN 701.

Units

Lecture3

Catalog Details

Offering

Offered: Every Spring

Terms

spring

Restrictions

Admission to the MSBA program

Attributes

Standard

Learning Outcomes

  • describe the importance of inference and prediction and distinguish them. Describe supervised and unsupervised learning methods and distinguish them. Interpret the model findings.
  • contrast different statistical and machine learning methods.
  • identify and describe the challenges in real-world data analytics projects.
  • identify and describe “good” vs. “bad” models by virtue of evaluation metrics.
  • identify a challenge/ shortcoming in each of the statistical methods discussed in this course AND find and describe a solution from the current research to address/alleviate the problem.