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Course Info for ECON - 218 - 01, Spring 2024
Class number: 1326 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: 28 Available seats: 1
Start date: Monday, January 22, 2024 End date: Friday, May 10, 2024 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: MWF: 12:00PM-12:50PM, SH - N130 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.