Certificate in Applied Statistical Methods at New Jersey Institute of Technology

Provides professionals with advanced skills and tools to collect data, analyze it and interpret results across a wide variety of high-tech companies. The techniques learned can be applied to quality control, production design and analysis, telecommunications, financial analysis and risk analysis. 

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Students in the Applied Statistical Methods Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills: 

 

• Role and purpose of applied statistics (summary measures for quantitative/qualitative data, random behavior modeling, computational statistical inference, linear regression analysis and inference, and more). 
• Regression models and the least squares criterion. 
• Role of sample surveys, sampling design and different sampling methods. 
• Fixed and random effect models and ANOVA, block design, Latin square design, factorial and fractional factorial designs and their analysis.
• Statistical software such as JMP, SAS and S-plus. 
• Times-series and naïve-forecasting models, estimation and forecasting for ARMA models and nonseasonal and seasonal ARIMA models, and more.