Multi-media for DSCI 3710 and Decision Sciences/Analytics

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• Decisions using Data: What is Statistics? What is the p-value? What is Hypothesis Testing (in the context of comparing two means)?

(Some nice introductory videos; see below....we have no idea what "Choconutties" are!)

 

 

 

PODCASTS - Related to Applications of Operations Research and Analytics

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• Competing on Analytics (Prof. Tom Davenport , Harvard Business School)

• Troublemaker or Trusted Advisor? (Prof. Lawrence Wein, Stanford University) the related NBC video can be seen here

• Using Analytics to Battle AIDS: A Lesson from the Clinton Foundation (Justin Cohen, The Clinton Foundation)

• Emergency! Pandemic (Prof. Sheldon H. Jacobson, University of Illinois)

• The Flaw of Averages (Prof. Sam L. Savage, Stanford University)

• Running the numbers in time for the World Series (Prof. James J. Cochran, Louisiana Tech University)