Economics (ECON) - Elementary Statistical Methods for Economists

ECON 2126  Elementary Statistical Methods for Economists

Prerequisites:

ECON 1127

Antirequisites:

ADMN 2606

Restrictions:

This is an introductory statistics courses. A student in a degree program cannot retain credit for more than nine credits of introductory statistics courses.

Hours:

Two hours of lecture and one hour of lab per week for one term.

Credits:

3

Description:

The course examines some basic statistical theories, concepts, methods and techniques, and their application in economics. Topics include measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability theory, probability distributions, sampling, sampling distribution, estimation, hypothesis testing, correlation, and regression. The course also incorporates the use of a popular software package to generate statistical information for analysis and interpretation. This course is also offered as ADMN 2606.