Syllabus

ISQS 7342-2, ADVANCED TOPICS IN MIS – Business Analytics, Fall 2008

Instructor: Zhangxi Lin

Office hours: 9:00-11:00a TTh or by appointment, BA 708

Class Meeting: 12:30-1:50p TTh, BA 363

Tentative Course Structure:

1. Decision trees and algorithm implementation using SAS
2. CRM (Clustering using SAS Enterprise Miner)
3. SAS Financial management application
4. SAS for risk management (TBD)

Prerequisite: ISQS 6347, Data and Text Mining

Required textbook:

Decision Trees for Business Intelligence and Data Mining: Using SAS Enterprise Miner

By: Barry de Ville, ISBN: 978-1-59047-567-6**, Publisher: SAS Press, Copyright Date: October 2006

Optional Textbooks:

1. CRM Segmentation and Clustering Using SAS Enterprise Miner By: Randall S. Collica, Publisher: SAS Press	ISBN: 978-1-59047-508-9**
2. Using SAS in Financial Research By: Ekkehart Boehmer, John Broussard, and Juha Pekka Kallunki Publisher: SAS Press	ISBN: 978-1-59047-039-8**

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