Business Statistics
An accelerated 8-week online course in applied statistics for business decision-making. Lectures release weekly. Office hours by appointment via Zoom or in person.
Where do you want to go?
The common paths into the course. Everything is also linked in the top navigation.
About
Course syllabus — description, grading, academic conduct, all ACC-required info — plus the 8-week schedule with exam dates.
Lessons
Video lectures and Excel walkthroughs, organized by week. Watch any time.
Data
Datasets for problem sets and projects — FRED, WSJ Markets, CIA World Factbook, and your free WSJ account through ACC.
Get help
Email, phone, office hours by appointment. Tutoring and support services on the Resources page.
What you'll learn.
Descriptive and inferential statistical techniques for business and economic decision-making. We'll cover the collection, description, analysis, and summarization of data; probability; discrete and continuous random variables; the binomial and normal distributions; sampling distributions; tests of hypotheses; estimation and confidence intervals; linear regression; and correlation analysis.
Statistical software — Excel or an equivalent — is used throughout the course to analyze real data.
The goal is practical: by the end, you should be able to read a business report, a market study, or a news chart and know whether the conclusion actually follows from the data.
BUSI 2305 is included in the Texas Business Field of Study. Formerly BUSG 2371.