Introduction to principles and techniques for modelling business and economic data. Modelling in business and finance using computers, spreadsheet modelling of business problems, organising and accessing data efficiently. Modelling in economics and finance, multiple regression as a tool for modelling macroeconomic and microeconomic decisions, elasticities and statistical evaluation of policy, time series modelling with application to finance. Introduction to Actuarial Studies as an approach to building quantitative models of risk. -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Lee Gordon-Brown; Mr.Graham Forbes, Professor Farshid Vahid (S1 2012)
Prerequisites: ETC1000
