Engineering and Business professionals often have access to many sources of data. The best way to way to ensure your data is both valid and reliable is to plan for it ahead of time. Through this class, you will be able to plan for accurate and precise data generation, then use that data for the purpose of estimation and risk reduction related to capital investments.
Data Acquisition, Risk, and Estimation
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Data Acquisition, Risk, and Estimation
This course is part of The Data Driven Manager Specialization
Instructor: Wendy Martin
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Intermediate level
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8 hours to complete
3 weeks at 2 hours a week
Flexible schedule
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What you'll learn
Create a plan to answer business and engineering questions.
Calculate effect size, power and sample size to reduce risk in decision making.
Distinguish between best- and worst-case scenarios given point and interval estimates.
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Assessments
7 quizzes
Taught in English
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There are 5 modules in this course
Upon completion of this module, students will be able to classify types of sampling used for data acquisition, describe sampling error, and construct random number sequences for sampling.
What's included
12 videos1 reading1 quiz2 discussion prompts
Upon completion of this module, students will be able to calculate point and interval estimates using RStudio and ROIStat.
What's included
9 videos1 quiz1 discussion prompt
Upon completion of this module, students will be able to use point and interval estimates to determine best- and worst-case scenarios.
What's included
9 videos2 quizzes1 discussion prompt
Upon completion of this module, students will be able to plan for data acquisition to minimize risk in decision making, including sample size, effect size and power calculations.
What's included
12 videos1 quiz1 discussion prompt
Upon completion of this module, students will be able to use return on investment calculations to determine effect size, sample size and power using RStudio and ROIStat.
What's included
11 videos2 quizzes1 discussion prompt
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