Dr Soner Baskaya

This course is compulsory on the MSc in Management (1 Year Programme). This course is not available as an outside option.

The course is designed to achieve an understanding of fundamental notions of data presentation and data analysis and to use statistical thinking in the context of business problems. The course deals with modern methods of data exploration (designed to reveal unusual or problematic aspects of databases), the uses and abuses of the basic techniques of inference, and the use of regression as a tool for management and for financial analysis.

15 hours of lectures and 9 hours of seminars in the AT.

In its Ethics Code, LSE upholds a commitment to intellectual freedom. This means we will protect the freedom of expression of our students and staff and the right to engage in healthy debate in the classroom.

Students will be expected to produce 1 project in the AT.

The two formative assessments will be in class exercises with two components. One component will help prepare students for the Project (i.e., an application of a statistical technique to solve a company problem or research question), and the other component will help prepare students for the Final Exam.

• Statistics for Business Decision Making and Analysis, by Robert Stine and Dean Foster (S & F) second edition Pearson.

Exam (70%, duration: 2 hours, reading time: 15 minutes) in the January exam period.
Project (20%, 3000 words) and continuous assessment (10%) in the AT.