Course Content
PG level Advanced Certification Programme in
Business Analytics
Course Content:
Probability & Applied Statistics: 50 hours - Prof. Chiranjit Mukhopadhyay
1. Probability Basics: Interpretation, Probability Space, Combinatiorial Probability,
Conditional Probability, Probability Laws - 6 hours
2. Random Variables: Discrete & Continuous RV, PMF, CDF, PDF, Moments, Quan- tiles,
Joint, Marginal and Conditional Distributions of Random Vectors, Defini- tions of
Correlation & Regression - 8 hours
3. Probability Models: Binomial, Poisson, Pascal, Hypergeometric, Uniform, Nor- mal,
Gamma & Beta Distributions - 6 hours
4. Statistics Essentials: Estimation, Hypothesis Testing, Prediction, The Frequentist &
Bayesian Paradigms - 5 hours
5. Elementary Statistical Methods using R: One & Two Sample Problems for Mean,
Variance & Proportions - Z, χ2, t & F -tests in R - 10 hours
6. Correlation & Regression Analysis using R: Simple & Multiple Regression, Vari- able
Selection, Simple, Multiple & Partial Correlation Coefficients, General Linear
Hypothesis Testing, Prediction, Qualitative Predictors - 15 hours
Machine Learning: 40 hours - Prof. Parthasarathy Ramachandran
1. Nature of Problems Solved Using ML: Prediction & Learning, Supervised versus
Unsupervised Learning, Model Complexity & Regularization, Training versus Test
Errors - 4 hours
2. Classification & Regression using Python: Nearest Neighbours, Logistic Regres- sion,
Feed Forward Networks, Regression & Classification Trees, Random Forests,
Discriminant Analysis, Support Vector Machines - 22 hours
3. Unsupervised Learning using Python: Cluster Analysis, Principal Component Anal- ysis,
Independent Component Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling - 12 hours
4. Text & Graph Analytics in Python: - Latent Dirichlet Allocation, Graph Neural
Networks - 2 hours
Course Content
Prescriptive Analytics: 30 hours - Prof. M Mathirajan
Linear & Integer Programming, Optimization of Network Models, Heuristic Program- ming,
Dynamic Programming, Goal Programming, Multi-Attribute Decision Making
Management Functional Area Applications: 30 hours
1. Financial Analytics: Time Series Analysis, Security Analysis & Portfolio Manage- ment
- 10 hours - Prof. Shashi Jain
2. Marketing Analytics: Market Basket Analysis, Customer Segmentation, Consumer
Choice Analysis - 10 hours - Prof. Shashi Jain
3. Operations Analytics: Survival Analysis, Two Operations Analytics Case Studies
- 5 hours - Prof. Parthasarathy Ramachandran
4. HRM Analytics: HRM Data and Metrics, Two HRM Analytics Case Studies - 5
hours - Dr. Tanuj Negi