It stresses application to common tasks such as summarizing large databases, making quick estimates, establishing relationships among variables, forecasting and evaluating alternatives. Topics include probability, common discrete and continuous distributions, sampling, confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, contingency tables, statistical process control and multiple regresion analysis. Extensive use of computers for the analysis of data sets. DSES-6610 Applied Operations Research. An introduction to the application of deterministic and stochastic operations research.
Emphasis is given to linear programming and simulation.
Students will learn how to apply common optimization methods to problem formulation, computer solution and analysis of results. Case studies and examples are solved using a microcomputer software package. DSES-6620 Simulation Modeling and Analysis. A thorough development of a simulation language is stressed to progress through a series of increasingly sophisticated applications of computer simulation. Submission of a completed application form.