FORECASTING WITH STATISTICS AND SIMULATION - NUS Business School

FORECASTING WITH STATISTICS AND SIMULATION

DURATION

2 days

NEXT RUN

TBA

FEES

SGD 248.00 after MAX Funding
SGD 2,160.00 with GST

VENUE

NUS Business School

NUMBER

Lim Si Qi
+65 6601 8902

E-MAIL

lim-sq@nus.edu.sg

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OVERVIEW

Improve your forecasting with statistics and simulation models

This intermediate business analytics course aims to provide you with:

An introduction to regression analysis
Simulation models for decision-making under uncertainty

By the end of the course, you will be equipped with useful forecasting and simulation skills that you can apply to finance, operations, sports etc.

Topic Coverage

Predictive analytics

Basic concepts and calculations of statistics: central limit theorem, distribution functions, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing
Regression analysis for explanatory modeling (Python package statsmodels)
Regression analysis for predictive modeling (Python package scikitlearn)

Simulation models for decision-making under uncertainty

Introduction to probability
Random variables and building simulation models
Statistical measures as the outputs of a simulation model

Faculty

peng xiong

Senior Lecturer
Analytics & Operations

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Individuals who have the basic Python skills and are keen on data analytics skills and their applications.

Who Should Attend

DATES AND FEES

Date	Venue	after MAX Funding	with GST	Registration
TBA	NUS Business School	SGD 248.00	SGD 2,160.00

Application Procedure & Deadline

Participants are strongly advised to apply at least 2 weeks in advance.

Prerequisites

Quantitatively inclined individuals and have basic Python skills (data types, control flow, and packages like Pandas, NumPy and Matplotlib). Participants are expected to bring their own laptops (Win or Mac) with Anaconda (free individual version) installed.