Predictive Modeling & Prescriptive Analytics provides students with skills applying more advanced predictive and prescriptive analytic techniques utilized in business analytics. In the predictive analytics domain, the focus is on the use of statistical and machine learning techniques to predict or forecast future outcomes. Topics include multiple regression analysis and more advanced hypothesis testing techniques. In the prescriptive analytics domain, the focus is on the use of data-driven models to prescribe the best action plan given a set of conditions or a problem situation. Topics will include spreadsheet modeling, optimization models, simulation, and an introduction to additional machine learning algorithms. The emphasis is on model formulation and interpretation of results. The course covers a wide range of predictive and prescriptive methods that are widely used across the various functional areas of business. Spring even years.