Students are expected to be familiar before the first day of class with the material in the first 12 chapters of the required textbook: Statistics for Business: Decision Making and Analysis, Stine and Foster, (3rd Edition, Pearson, 2018). Students should also be familiar with basic commands in Excel, including the data analysis tool pack.

This course assumes prior knowledge of the skills listed below and will immediately begin building on them.

This is a difficult course for students who do not have a strong quant background. You are strongly encouraged to attend the Data and Decisions Workshop during out new Student Orientation's ACE Week in August in preparation for this course. You should also do at least one of the following:

• Take a summer course in probability and statistics at a local college or university.
• Review the material in the MBA Quantitative Skills course (information sent from the Haas Admissions Office)
• Read and work through the problems in the first 12 chapters of the required textbook (MBA 200S): Statistics for Business: Decision Making and Analysis, Stine and Foster, (3rd Edition, Pearson, 2018. ISBN:9780134497167).
  
  

This course assumes prior knowledge of these skills, and will immediately begin building on them:

• Basic spreadsheet skills
• Solving a system of two linear equations
• Graphing linear and quadratic functions
• Measuring the area under a linear function
• Determining the rate of change of a function at a point
• Differentiating a single-variable function
• Identifying the maxima and minima of a function
• Ability to use probabilities and outcomes to calculate means (averages)