This syllabus is a draft. The final syllabus will be made available the first day of class.
This is the second Statistics course in a two-course sequence, that equips students with the basic statistical tools to analyze data, construct and test models for business decisions, conduct economic research, use statistical software and adequately communicate the results of empirical analysis.
The topics covered are:
Review of hypothesis testing
Inference about means, proportions and variances of two populations
Tests of goodness of fit and independence
Experimental design and analysis of variance
Simple linear regression
Multiple regression
Regression analysis and model building
Time series analysis and forecasting