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Semester 2
Statistical Methods for Economics (ECNM08016)
Subject
Economics
College
CAHSS
Credits
20
Normal Year Taken
2
Delivery Session Year
2023/2024
Pre-requisites
Visiting students must have completed at least one introductory level Economics course and one Calculus course at grade B or above, or have obtained written permission of the course organiser. We will only consider University/College level courses. Please see Additional Restrictions below.
Course Summary
The course is intended as an introduction to probability theory and statistics for economists and other social science students.
Course Description
The topics covered will include: Basic concepts, sample spaces, events, probabilities; Conditioning and independence, Bayes' formula; Discrete random variables, expectation, variance, mean, independence; Continuous random variables, distributions and densities; Covariance, correlation, central limit theorem; Summary statistics; Sampling distributions; Hypothesis testing; Interval estimation; simple linear regression, and multiple regression. The use of Stata for statistical analysis will be supported.
Assessment Information
Written Exam 75%, Coursework 25%, Practical Exam 0%
Additional Restrictions
It is not suitable for students to take this course alongside Economics 1 (ECNM08013).
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