5700 (v.6) Information for Business Decisions 550

Area:	Graduate School of Business
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	3.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Lecture:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Syllabus:	This unit focuses on developing a systematic and structured approach to coping with the ever-increasing quantity of business-related data. This unit gives students the tools and techniques for converting data into useful information and for developing the ability to structure complex decision problems into a rational framework, thus leading to coherence and consistency in decision-making. This unit covers statistical methods, relating and determining associations between the various aspects of relevant data and information, and causal models for forecasting and decision-making. Though not a computing unit, students need access to a computing package that allows statistical data analysis.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	010100 Mathematical Sciences (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Fully Online *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Fully Online
2009	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2009	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y
2009	Perth City Campus	Trimester 1	Y
2009	Perth City Campus	Trimester 1	Y
2009	Miri Sarawak Campus	Trimester 2

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External