This unit covers basic statistics and is compulsory for all Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Commerce students. Topics include displaying and summarising data; random variables and their distributions; normal and binomial distributions; sampling distributions and hypothesis testing; confidence intervals; t-tests and F-tests; regression and correlation; goodness of fit; chi-square tests; and introduction to analysis of variance. Use of statistical packages is an integral part of the unit and emphasis is placed on examples of particular relevance to economics and commerce students. -- Course Website
Instructor: Assistant Professor Nazim Khan
Prerequisites: WACE Mathematics 3A/3B or WACE Mathematics 3C/3D or WACE Mathematics Specialist 3A/3B or WACE Mathematics Specialist 3C/3D or TEE Applicable Mathematics or TEE Calculus or ECON1111 Quantitative Methods for Business and Economics
