Professional Certification in Quantitative Methods
Data-Driven Decisions, Powered by AI


Overview
Data-driven strategies encourage business growth and efficiency while promoting a competitive edge for organisations to thrive with incisive insights based on empirical evidence.
Business analysis requires skill sets to identify business needs, business environments, markets and competitors which will enable students to find corresponding solutions that may affect the growth of the business. Quantitative business analysis takes a deeper dive by employing statistical methods to analyse, identify and draw conclusions on the relationships between existing and future variables. This enables organisations to study and understand prevailing trends and patterns, predict future ones and comprehend how different factors can affect the outcome for a more profitable business. The goal of this course is to give students the quantitative tools and analytical rigour they will need for business analytics. In this course, students will strengthen their understanding of foundational statistical methods like confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and stochastic modeling. They will also learn how quantitative techniques can turn seemingly difficult and ambiguous problems into clearly defined and easily answered questions. Additionally, students will learn how AI can act as a force multiplier for analytics.
- Asynchronous 1 - Topics
Math review, The Normal Distribution, Algebra of Random Variables, The Normal CDF - Class 1 - Topics
Activity: Competing with Probability Distributions,
Activity: Understanding Histograms, The Inverse Normal CDF,
Activity: Finding the Limits of The Central Limit Theorem - Asynchronous 2 - Topics
Hypothesis testing, The T-Distribution, Difference-in-means-tests, Using Google Colab - Class 2 - Topics
Hypothesis Testing Projects: Choosing Thresholds for Fraud Detection, Avoiding False Positives in A/B Testing - Asynchronous 3 - Topics
One-tailed tests, Confidence Intervals, Bootstrapping, Using AI for Analytics - Class 3 - Topics
Activities: Data Viz and Analytics with AI - Asynchronous 4 - Topics
More Algebra for Random Variables , Correlation and Covariance, The Binomial Distribution - Class 4 - Topics
Activity: More AI Analytics, Project: Correlation and Product Bundling - Asynchronous 5 - Topics
Dimensionality Reduction - Class 5 - Topics
Project: Making Big Data Manageable with Dimensionality Reduction
At the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Solve foundational mathematical problems in topics like probability and statistics, using both classic spreadsheets and AI tools
- Apply statistical techniques and quantitative analysis to business problems management.
- Propose rational decisions in a variety of business contexts.
Anyone without a background in analytics but wants to develop their skills and knowledge in analytics.
Quantitative Preparation course (for those with limited background in Math). Please note that a link to this course will be shared to ACE learners upon registration.
Class Structure
Asynchronous
Before the first live session and between sessions, students will watch short video lectures and complete brief homework assignments to strengthen their classroom learnings.
Live Sessions
There will be a review discussion of the asynchronous content at the beginning of each class. Following this, students will work on in-class analytics projects and participate in interactive simulations.
Duration
The course is delivered over a period of 8 weeks (this includes time for learners to view videos before the first live session). Session starts on September 14 and ends on October 12, 2025.
First Live-session
- Sunday, September 14, 2025
- 10:00am - 1:30pm (Malaysia Time)
Second Live-session
- Sunday, September 21, 2025
- 10:00am - 1:30pm (Malaysia Time)
Third Live-session
- Saturday, September 28, 2025
- 10:00am - 1:30pm (Malaysia Time)
Fourth Live-session
- Sunday, October 5, 2025
- 10:00am - 1:30pm (Malaysia Time)
Fifth Live-session
- Sunday, October 12, 2025
- 10:00am - 1:30pm (Malaysia Time)
- Sunday, April 20, 2025
- 10:00am - 1:30pm (Malaysia Time)
First Live-session
- Sunday, September 14, 2025
- 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM (Malaysian Time)
Second Live-session
- Sunday, September 21, 2025
- 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM (Malaysian Time)
Third Live-session
- Saturday, September 28, 2025
- 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM (Malaysian Time)
Fourth Live-session
- Sunday, October 5, 2025
- 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM (Malaysian Time)
Fifth Live-session
- Sunday, October 12, 2025
- 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM (Malaysian Time)
Faculty
Samuel Flanders
Associate Professor II of Economics
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Quantitative Methods
Data-Driven Decisions, Powered by AI
RM10,000 or approximately USD2,200*
*This ACE course, which is part of ASB’s accredited degree programs, is exempted from Malaysian SST.
