This course will focus on modern predictive analytic techniques. Each module is designed to introduce a set of statistical techniques and their application to real data from various business fields. The course will focus on 4 broad topics 1) Finding the most appropriate model for the data, 2) selecting optimal set of predictors, 3) reducing dimensionality of the data, 4)improving prediction performance. Programming using R, open source software, is fundamental to the course. Prereq: ADMN 950 or permission.