Quantitative Methods B - ECON1203


	Faculty: Australian School of Business
	School: School of Economics
	Course Outline: http://www.economics.unsw.edu.au/
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
	Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: ECON1202, Ex: MATH2841, MATH2801, MATH2901
	Equivalent: ECON2292
	Excluded: MATH1041
	Fee Band: 3 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

Course topics include: frequency distributions; measures of central tendency; dispersion and skewness; introduction to probability theory; the binomial distribution; the poisson distribution; the normal distribution; point estimation of population parameters and confidence intervals; hypothesis tests; the t and chi square distributions; bivariate regression; estimation; and hypothesis testing.