Business and Economic Statistics - ECON1203

   
   
 
Course Outline: ECON1203 Course Outline
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Excluded: MATH2841, MATH2801, MATH2901
 
 
Equivalent: ECON2292
 
 
Excluded: MATH1041
 
 
Fee Band: 3 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description


All students taking this course during Summer Term 2009/10 will be required to pay full tuition fees. This includes Commonwealth supported students who are studying at UNSW. Please see Australian School of Business courses - Summer Term fees 2009-10 for more information.

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; the t and chi square distributions; bivariate regression; estimation; and hypothesis testing.