Research (MKTG-590-0)
Independent investigation of selected problems pertaining to thesis or dissertation. May be repeated for credit.
Topics in Quantitative Marketing (MKTG-552-0)
This seminar-style class exposes students to working papers in current areas of active research. 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year students are required to enroll. Participants will read, present, and discuss recent papers with the goal of improving their ability to evaluate a paper's academic contribution and managerial relevance and to further extend their knowledge of models and methods. This class will reinforce the research environment and foster collaboration between students and faculty. One or more faculty can teach the course, and we expect to rotate it among the faculty on a consistent basis. Faculty who teach this course must be careful to coordinate the content relative to the three core classes.
Quantitative Marketing: Statistical Modeling (MKTG-551-2)
This is a doctoral course on statistical models and topics alternate from year to year. Currently, in odd years the course is on Bayesian methods and computation and covers simple parametric models, regression models, hierarchical models, mixture models, optimization algorithms, Monte Carlo simulation algorithms, model checking, nonparametric models, and hidden Markov models while in even years the course is on applied and computational statistics and covers statistical graphics and exploratory data analysis, permutation tests, null tests, the bootstrap, smoothing, cross-validation, tree-based and linear regression, model selection, bagging, principal components analysis, and cluster analysis. Marketing applications include but are not limited to conjoint analysis, choice models, data minimization, perceptual maps, etc.
