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Course Info for ECON - 218 - 01, Fall 2025
Class number: 1761 Title: Intro to Stats for Econ Department: Economics
Career: Undergraduate Component: Lecture Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 29 Current enrollment: 25 Available seats: 4
Start date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 End date: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: MWF: 12:00PM-12:50PM, LIB - B03 Instructor(s): Bouazza, Hanae
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: C+ or better in Economics 101 or permission of instructor.
Distribution Requirement: Meets Numerical & Symbolic Reasoning Requirement
Course Description:
As data and computing resources have become increasingly accessible, economics has become more concerned with measurement and estimation of economic phenomena. This course is designed to familiarize students with common statistical methods used in economics. Topics will include the presentation of data, descriptive statistics, probability theory, discrete and continuous distributions, sampling distributions, estimation, and hypothesis testing.