The Department of Business Analytics & Statistics conducts application-focused research that leads to practical insights, tools and solutions.

We partner with companies from diverse industries to work on large data sets. Additionally, we share the University of Tennessee’s IBM-Enabled Advanced Analytics Lab with the Tickle College of Engineering to study unstructured data in a secure environment.

Sean Willems

“Logility’s inventory optimization solution is based on work pioneered at Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Dr. Sean Willems, chief scientist at Logility and professor and Haslam Chair in Business Analytics and Statistics at the University of Tennessee.”

Nucleus Research Recognizes Logility as a Leader in the Inventory Optimization Value Matrix 2016

Business Wire

Adam Petrie

“The results of a recent study of supply chain professionals we undertook suggest that despite a growing interest in using analytics to better understand complex performance relationships, many companies still struggle to develop this capability as a competitive resource.”

Unleashing the Potential of Supply Chain Analytics

MIT Sloan

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Business Analytics & Statistics

Applied Optimization

Applied Statistics

Big Data Analytics

Computational Statistics

Customer Analytics

Data Mining

Design and Analysis of Experiments

Healthcare Analytics

High-Dimensional Modeling

Industrial Statistics

Charles Cwiek

Lean Operations

Machine Learning

Predictive Analytics

Six-Sigma Statistical Process Control

Charles Cwiek

Social Media Analytics

Supply Chain Analytics

The Value of the Haslam MSBA

Alumnus Haley Hubbard and Ana Richters, a current student, talk about the value of meeting and interacting with industry analytics professionals at the Business Analytics Forum.

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Our Research

From the stock market to manufacturing, social media and medical care, analytics now touch every aspect of our lives. Our research serves to help organizations reach their business objectives, students extend their grasp of the subject beyond theoretical knowledge, and society advance.

Our Faculty

Why Livestreamers Should Sell Their Products Without a Smile

Analysis by a research team from UT and the University of California suggests neutral expressions lead to better returns.