ECO 2150 Probability and Statistics for Economists

3 units
Economics
Faculty of Social Sciences
Role of statistics in economic analysis. Descriptive statistics. Probability and random variables. Distributions and moments of discrete and continuous random variables. Joint distributions. Sampling distributions. Point and interval estimation. Hypothesis testing. The courses ECO 2150 , MAT 1371 , MAT 1372 , MAT 2371 , MAT 2375 , MAT 2377 , MAT 2379 , ADM 2303 , ADM 2304 , HSS 2381 , PSY 2106 cannot be combined for units. Previously ECO 3150.

Components:

Lecture

Requirements:

Prerequisites: ECO 1102 , ECO 1104 , ( MAT 1308 or MAT 1300 or MAT 1320 or MAT 1330 ).

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Organized

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Clear Expectations

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Learned a Lot

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Fair Assessments

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