UNSW Handbook Course - Quantitative Methods B (Arts)

Quantitative Methods B (Arts) - ECON2292


	Faculty: Faculty of Commerce and Economics
	School: School of Economics
	Contact: Caisley,Nadine Lee-Anne
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: ECON2291; Excluded: ECON1203, MATH1041, MATH2801, MATH2841, MATH2901
	Session Offered: See Class Timetable
	Fee Band: 2 (more info)

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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