Business Analytics and Quantitative Tools

About this subject

• What you'll learn

  At the completion of this subject students will be able to:

  1. Identify types of data and appropriate methods of collecting data and apply visualization techniques and calculate numerical descriptive measures to analyse the data. 
  2. Describe the concept of probability associated with uncertainty in statistical decision making and probability distributions.
  3. Formulate and estimate regression models, interpret results, understand statistical properties of estimators, and conduct hypothesis tests on model parameters and on the assumptions made on the stochastic disturbance term.
  4. Perform econometric modelling of economic and financial time series and understand related concepts related to non-stationary variables.

• Topics covered

• Description

• Assessments

• Textbooks

• About Griffith University

Entry requirements

Part of a degree

To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• GRF-GCB-GCE-2026 - Graduate Certificate in Business

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

Study load

0.125 EFTSL

This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.

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