2010 Course Handbook
MIST812: Decision Support Systems
Decision support systems provide opportunities for evidence based decision making in modern organisations. The decision support systems studied in this unit are computer-based and help students to manipulate data extracted from different sources which may be internal or external to an organisation. The topics covered in this unit are: data warehousing and data marts, online analytic processing, data mining (i.e. classification, market segmentation -- cluster analysis and market basket analysis), and geographic information systems. The unit will be taught using modern software.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | -- |
| When Offered: | D2 - Day; Offered in the second half-year |
| Staff Contact: | Dr Ayse Bilgin |
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| NCCWs: | STAT820, STAT828 |
| Unit Designations: | -- |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Department of Statistics Faculty of Science |