MN12007: Business analytics
[Page last updated: 23 October 2023]
| Academic Year: | 2023/24 |
| Owning Department/School: | School of Management |
| Credits: | 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 200 |
| Level: | Certificate (FHEQ level 4) |
| Period: |
- Academic Year
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| Assessment Summary: | CWES 50%, EXCB 50% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Closed-book written examination (EXCB 50%)
- Case study on an applied business analytics problem (CWES 50%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
- Recognise the role that analytics techniques can play in the solution of management problems.
- Identify problems that are amenable to these techniques.
- Understand and apply the key statistical techniques that underpin business analytics.
- Communicate effectively with specialists in management science and operational research.
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| Synopsis: | Explore how modern analytics techniques can support and improve business decision making by giving insights and suggesting solutions to problems. This unit will also help you to identify problems to apply these techniques to. You'll develop skills to communicate effectively with specialists in management science and operational research.
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| Content: | The unit will cover both fundamental statistical techniques and more advanced business analytics topics. Likely topics include:
- Data collection and data types
- Descriptive statistics
- Probability theory and probability distributions. Applications to decision trees
- Sampling methods and distributions
- Confidence intervals
- Correlation and bivariate and multiple regression
- Time series analysis
- Applications to statistical quality control.
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| Course availability: |
MN12007 is Compulsory on the following courses:
School of Management
- UMMN-AFB11 : BSc(Hons) Accounting and Management (Year 1)
- UMMN-AKB11 : BSc(Hons) Accounting and Management with work placement (Year 1)
- UMMN-AKB13 : BSc(Hons) International Management with year abroad (Year 1)
- UMMN-AFB14 : BSc(Hons) Management (Year 1)
- UMMN-AKB15 : BSc(Hons) Management with Marketing with work placement (Year 1)
- UMMN-AKB14 : BSc(Hons) Management with work placement (Year 1)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2023/24 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2024/25 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2023/24.
- Courses and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
- Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
- Find out more about these and other important University terms and conditions here.
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