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PGDBA Syllabus

This document outlines the syllabus for a PG Diploma in Business Analytics offered jointly by ISI Kolkata, IIT Kharagpur, and IIM Kolkata. It lists 5 core courses to be offered in the first semester by ISI Kolkata covering topics in statistics, stochastic processes, data structures, inference, and computing for data science. The second semester will see core courses taught by IIT Kharagpur in areas like regression, time series analysis, algorithms, and machine learning. IIM Kolkata will offer the third semester with options to choose 3 core courses from subjects like data mining and marketing analytics, and 2 electives from a list of 25 courses.

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PGDBA Syllabus

This document outlines the syllabus for a PG Diploma in Business Analytics offered jointly by ISI Kolkata, IIT Kharagpur, and IIM Kolkata. It lists 5 core courses to be offered in the first semester by ISI Kolkata covering topics in statistics, stochastic processes, data structures, inference, and computing for data science. The second semester will see core courses taught by IIT Kharagpur in areas like regression, time series analysis, algorithms, and machine learning. IIM Kolkata will offer the third semester with options to choose 3 core courses from subjects like data mining and marketing analytics, and 2 electives from a list of 25 courses.

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PG Diploma in Business Analytics

to be run by ISI Kolkata, IIT Kharagpur, IIM Kolkata

Syllabus of Courses to be offered by ISI Kolkata

(all courses are core/compulsory)


1. Stat1: Stochastic Processes and Applications
a. Basic Probability: Concepts of experiments, outcomes, sample space, events,
discrete sample spaces, probability models; random variables: discrete &
continuous, some probability distributions; conditional probability, Bayes
theorem (5 weeks).
b. Stochastic Process: Markov chains, classification of states, stationary
distribution, limit theorems; Poisson process; illustrations and applications (5
weeks).
c. Introduction to Time Series: Components of time series, smoothing,
autocorrelation, partial autocorrelation; AR, MA, ARMA and ARIMA models;
applications; forecasting (6 weeks).

Suggested books:

1. A First Course in Probability by SheldonM. Ross, 2014.


2. Introduction to Stochastic Processes by Paul G.Hoel, Sidney C. Port and Charles
J. Stone, Waveland Press, 1987.
3. Time Series Analysis and Its Applications by Robert H. Shumway and David S.
Stoffer, Springer, 2010.

2. Stat2: Statistical Structures in Data


a. Basic Statistics: Frequency table, histogram, measures of location, measures
of spread, skewness, kurtosis, percentiles/quantiles, box plot, correlation,
probability distribution as a statistical model, fitting probability distributions,
empirical distribution, checking goodness of fit through plots and tests (5
weeks).
b. Basic Multivariate Statistics: Representation of multivariate data; conditional
distribution, bivariate distribution, multivariate distribution; multinomial
distribution, multivariate normal distribution, sample mean and sample
variance-covariance matrix, basic tests, concepts of location and depth in
multivariate data (5 weeks).
c. Structures in multivariate data: Principal components analysis, factor analysis,
multiple correlation, multidimensional scaling. (6 weeks).

Suggested books:

1. Statistics, David Freedman, Pobert Pisani and Roger Purves, WW. Norton &
Co, 4th Edition, 2007.
2. Multivariate Data Analysis by Joseph F. Hair, Jr., William C. Black, Barry J.
Babin and Rolph E. Anderson, Prentice Hall, 7th Edition, 2009.
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3. Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis by Richard A. Johnson and Dean W.


Wichern, Prentice Hall, 2002.
4. An Introduction to Applied Multivariate Analysis with R by Brian Everitt and
Torsten Hothorn, Springer, 2011.

3. Stat3: Inference
a. Data Collection & Visualization: Concepts of measurement; scales of
measurement; design of data collection formats with illustrations; data quality
and issues with data collection systems with examples from business;
cleaning and treatment of missing data; principles of data visualization and
different methods of presenting data in business analytics (5 weeks).
b. Methods of Estimation: Estimation in the context of business analytics;
estimation as data summarization and inferential tool; concepts of population,
sample and estimators; criteria for good estimators – concepts of
unbiasedness, consistency and their implications; illustration of sample mean
and sample proportion through Monte Carlo simulations, introduction to
different methods of estimation; concepts of sampling distributions of a
statistic; confidence interval and their usages; examples in real life analytic
scenarios (5 weeks).
c. Test of Hypotheses and postulate verification: Hypotheses testing in the
context of business analytics; different types of statistical hypotheses; test
statistics and reference distributions; concepts of significance and power;
different parametric tests for equality of means, variances and proportions;
illustrations through simulated data; non-parametric tests including
permutation tests; describing systems using random variables; examples of
formulation of business problems in terms of hypotheses and system models
(6 weeks).

Suggested books:
1. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte,
Graphics Press, 2001.
2. Best Practices in Data Cleaning by Jason W. Osborne, Sage
Publications, 2012.
3. Probability and Statistics by Morris H. Degroot and Mark J. Schervish,
Addison-Wesley, 2012.
4. Practical Nonparametric Statistics by W. J. Conover, Wiley, 2006.

4. CS1: Computing for Data Sciences


a. Computer Package: Usage of R with illustrations (5 weeks).
b. Concept of Computation: Concept of algorithms; concepts of convergence
and complexity with illustrations; some numerical methods e.g., Newton-
Raphson, steepest ascent, searching algorithms (5 weeks).
c. Computing methodologies: Monte Carlo simulations of random numbers and
various statistical methods, computation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors,
memory handling strategies for big data (6 weeks).
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No textbook is suggested.

5. CS2: Fundamentals of data base systems


a. Basic concepts: Different data models, ER and EER diagrams, schema, table
(5 weeks).
b. Relational data base: Relational data bases, normalization, SQL, parallel and
distributed data base (5 weeks).
c. Implementation: Oracle, concept of data base security (6 weeks).

Suggested books:
1. Database System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz, Henry F. Korth
and S. Susarshan, McGraw-Hill, 2011.
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List of Courses to be offered by IIT Kharagpur (2nd Semester)


Core courses (compulsory)

1. Linear Algebra and Regression


2. Time Series Forecasting
3. Algorithms for Data Science
4. Machine Learning
5. Optimization and Business Decision

Elective courses (any one)

1. IT for Data Science


2. Big Data Analytics / Large Scale Databases
3. Text Mining and Information Retrieval
4. Cloud Computing
5. Complex Systems and Social Network Analytics
6. Spatial Analysis and GIS
7. Modelling in Operations Management
8. Business Accounting and Banking Analytics
9. Supply Chain Analytics
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List of Courses to be offered by IIM Kolkata (3rd Semester)


Core courses (any three)

1. Data Mining
2. Competing on Business Analytics
3. Business Data Analytics Principles
4. Financial Management Fundamentals
5. Organization Studies
6. Marketing Analytics
7. Analytics in Human Resource Management

Elective courses (any two)

1. Categorical and Multivariate Data Analysis


2. Nonparametric Methods
3. Design of Experiments
4. Web Analytics
5. Social Network Analytics
6. Customer Analytics
7. Advanced Spreadsheet Modeling
8. Econometric Methods with Applications in Business and Economics
9. Legal Aspects of Data Mining
10. Analytical Tools in Demand Management
11. Social Network Mining Applications
12. Simulation for Business Decisions
13. Analytics in Business Forecasting
14. Market Structure and Firm Strategy
15. Analytics of Marketing Communication
16. Pricing and Revenue Optimization
17. Computational Finance
18. Social Media Analytics
19. Manufacturing Analytics
20. High Frequency Finance and News Analytics
21. Supply Chain Analytics
22. Financial Risk Management
23. Applied Marketing Research
24. Data Warehousing
25. Business Proposal Presentation

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