Quantitative Techniques for Decision Making • Decision Making is a process of consciously choosing an alternative among several available (examples). • Decision making can be with complete certainty, risk & uncertainty and complete uncertainty. • QTs assist in decision making in the above situations.
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Quantitative Techniques for Decision Making
• Decision Making is a process of consciously choosing an alternative among several available (examples).
• Decision making can be with complete certainty, risk & uncertainty and complete uncertainty.
• QTs assist in decision making in the above situations.
Quantitative Techniques for Decision Making
• Quantitative analysis in decision making involves the use of scientific approach (No whim, emotions or guesswork).
• Raw data is processed into a meaningful information to arrive at a decision (examples).
• Both QTs are used for decision making.
Statistics and its role
1. Introduce the field of statistics
2. Demonstrate how statistics applies to business
3. Establish the link between statistics and data
4. Identify the different types of data and data-collection methods
5. Differentiate between population and sample data
6. Differentiate between descriptive and inferential statistics
1. Statistical Inference• Estimate or prediction or generalization about a
population based on information contained in a sample
2. Measure of Reliability• Statement (usually qualified) about the degree
of uncertainty associated with a statistical inference
Four Elements of Descriptive Statistical Problems
1. The population or sample of interest2. One or more variables (characteristics of the
population or sample units) that are to be investigated
3. Tables, graphs, or numerical summary tools4. Identification of patterns in the data
Five Elements of Inferential Statistical Problems
1. The population of interest2. One or more variables (characteristics of the
population units) that are to be investigated3. The sample of population units4. The inference about the population based on
information contained in the sample5. A measure of reliability for the inference
Types of Data
Types of
Data
QuantitativeData
QualitativeData
Types of Data
Quantitative data are measurements that are recorded on a naturally occurring numerical scale.
Qualitative data are measurements that cannot be measured on a natural numerical scale; they can only be classified into one of a group of categories.
Quantitative Data
Measured on a numeric scale.
• Number of defective items in a lot.
• Salaries of CEOs of oil companies.
• Ages of employees at a company.
3
52
71
4
8
943
120 1221
Qualitative Data
Classified into categories.• College major of each student in a class.• Gender of each employee at a company.• Method of payment (cash, check, credit card).
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Types of Data
1. Data from a published source2. Data from a designed experiment3. Data from a survey4. Data collected observationally
Category 1 is a secondary source; 2,3, and 4 fall into Primary source of data
Obtaining DataPublished source:
book, journal, newspaper, Web siteDesigned experiment:
researcher exerts strict control over unitsSurvey:
a group of people are surveyed and their responses are recorded
Observation study:units are observed in natural setting and variables of interest are recorded
• Economics– Forecasting
– Demographics
• Sports– Individual & Team
Performance
• Engineering– Construction
– Materials
• Business– Consumer Preferences
– Financial Trends
Some Statistical Applications Areas
Some Statistical Applications Areas
• Accountants make decisions based on the information relating to the financial state of organization.
• Marketing staff make decisions based on customer response to product and design.
• Personnel managers make decisions based on the information relating to the levels of employment in the organization.
Some Statistical Applications Areas
• Production executives use statistical methods for R & D programmes to improve the quality of the processes and products (SQC).
• Probable dividends for future years can be decided based on a correlation study of profits and dividends in the present and previous years (-- Finance department).
• Physical sciences such as astronomy, geology, meteorology, etc. use statistical methods such as sampling, estimation, DoE, etc.
• Medical science also use statistics.• Government agencies – state or central - do use statistics;
census, identification of the target beneficiaries for various schemes and many more.
Some limitations
• Statistics does not study qualitative phenomena.• Statistics does not study individuals • Statistics can be misused (skill & experience are
needed to draw useful inferences – god or devil)
Operations Research Techniques
• A technique that provides a quantitative basis for the executives for decision making.