Statistical Methods I

Course Code: 
ECON2008

The course outlines: Estimation and Hypothesis Testing (Expected Value, Properties of Estimators, Methods of Estimation, Central Limit Theorem, Distribution of Sample Mean and Proportion, Interval Estimation, Large and Small Samples, Hypothesis testing, Types of Errors, T, F and C2 Distributions, Inferences about Means and Proportions from two populations); Non-Parametric Methods (Situations where NP methods are applied, Runs Test, Mann-Whitney U-Test, Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test); Regression and Correlation (Simple and Multiple Regression, Polynomial Regression, Simple and Partial Correlation).

Semester: 
Semester 1
Pre-Requisites: 
ECON1005 & (ECON1004 or MATH1142) (Anti-requisite: STAT2001)
Department: 
Economics