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Quantitative Methods B - ECON1203
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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.

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