INTRODUCTORY ANALYTICS FOR DECISION MAKING

COMARTS/LIS 705

Course Description

Introduces key stages in the processes of gathering and analyzing data for decision making, including tasks, methods, and tools used at each stage. Topics include developing the research question from organizational goals, choosing appropriate data collection methods, sampling, basics of measurement and question design, managing and visualizing data, descriptive statistics and basic inferential statistics such as correlations, regressions, and ANOVA.

Prerequisties

Graduate/professional standing or Declared in Analytics for Decision Making capstone certificate

Satisfies

LIS 706

Credits

Not Reported

Offered

Not Reported

Grade Point Average

6.1% from Historical

Completion Rate

100%

1.43% from Historical

A Rate

100%

33.96% from Historical

Class Size

-70.42% from Historical

Instructors (2025 Fall)

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