Statistics: Business Analytics

Education facts

Code: STAE03

<p>How do companies use data to understand our behaviour and make smarter decisions? In this course, you’ll explore Big Data and learn statistical methods that help solve real-world business challenges.</p><p>Business analytics is about using data to make smart, evidence-based decisions. This course is ideal if you have basic knowledge of statistics and want to learn practical methods for analysing data. You’ll gain tools to understand and apply data mining and business analytics in strategic decision-making.</p><p>The course focuses on how to build and use models to analyse large datasets. You’ll learn methods such as exploratory data analysis, visualisation, classification, prediction and clustering. We begin with data visualisation to help uncover patterns, then move on to regression models and hypothesis testing using real-world examples. Later, you’ll explore advanced techniques like discriminant analysis and clustering methods. You’ll work with different types of data - including categorical data, time series and networks - and learn the basics of building suitable models. All analysis is carried out using the statistical software R.</p>

Entry requirements

General eligibility and knowledge corresponding to STAA41 Statistics: Basic course 1, 15 ECTS credits.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Statistics: Business Analytics

  Lund University

  Start date: 2 November 2026

  End date: 17 January 2027

  Pace of study: 50 %