Economics (ECON) Courses>Descriptive Statistics and Probability

ECON245 - Descriptive Statistics and Probability

Description

Populations, samples, measures of central location and dispersion. Deterministic time series analysis: trends, moving averages, seasonal adjustment, index numbers. Probability laws. Discrete and continuous random variables. Joint, marginal, and conditional distributions. Mathematical expectation and variance. Functions of random variables; laws of expectation. Covariance and correlation. Binomial, Poisson, and normal distributions.

Units

1.5

Hours: lecture-lab-tutorial

3-1-0

Note(s)

Prerequisites

  • Complete 1 of:
    • MATH100 - Calculus I (1.5)
    • MATH102 - Calculus for Students in the Social and Biological Sciences (1.5)
    • MATH109 - Introduction to Calculus (1.5)

Pre- or corequisites

  • Complete all of the following
    • Completed or concurrently enrolled in 1 of:
      • ECON103 - Principles of Microeconomics (1.5)
      • ECON103C - Introduction to Principles of Microeconomics and Financial Project Evaluation (1.5)
      • ECON180 - Introduction to Economics and Financial Project Evaluation (1.5)
    • Completed or concurrently enrolled in all of:
      • ECON104 - Principles of Macroeconomics (1.5)

Course offered by

Department of Economics

Course schedules

Summer timetable available: February 15. Fall and Spring timetables available: May 15.

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