Class Syllabus

Classes: Monday and Wednesday, 2:30 - 3:45 p.m., CK187

Instructors: Dr. Harvey King and Paul Gingrich

Text:

• David Anderson, Dennis Sweeney and Thomas Williams Essentials of Statistics for Business and Economics , fifth edition
  

Notes, assignments, and examinations for Economics 224 for the Fall 2006 semester are available from this web site. These materials are intended primarily for students in Economics 224 at the University of Regina. Others are free to use these materials, but please give appropriate credit if you do so. We apologize for any error or misinterpretations. Remember that these are notes for classes and are not finished products.

After the link to each set of notes, the author of the notes is listed as King, for Dr. Harvey King, or Gingrich, for Paul Gingrich.

Class Syllabus

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Class Notes:

September 6 and 8-- Introduction: Data and Empirical Analysis in Economics -- King

September 8 and 10-- Data and Statistics -- King

September 15 and 17 -- Descriptive Statistics -- King

September 17 and 22 -- Introduction to Probability -- Gingrich

September 24 -- Probability and Probability Distribution -- Gingrich

September 29 -- Probability Distributions -- Gingrich

October 1 -- Continuous Probability Distributions -- Gingrich

October 6 -- Sampling and Sampling Distributions -- Gingrich

October 8 -- Interval Estimation -- Gingrich

October 15 -- Sample Size -- Gingrich

October 20 -- Estimating a Population Proportion -- Gingrich

October 27 to November 5 -- Hypothesis Testing -- King

November 5 -- Introduction to Simple Linear Regression -- Gingrich

November 12 -- Bivariate Linear Regression -- Gingrich

November 17 -- Bivariate Regression -- Gingrich

November 19 -- Conclusion to Bivariate Linear Regression -- Gingrich

November 19 -- Example of a parabolic transformation -- Gingrich

November 19 -- Example of a logarithmic transformation -- Gingrich

November 19 to 26 -- Multiple Regression -- King

December 1 -- Statistical Communication: "Lies, Damned Lies, and Satistics" -- King

December 3 -- Review -- King

Assignments:

Assignment 1

Answers to Assignment 1

Assignment 2

Answers to Assignment 2

Assignment 3

Answers to Assignment 3

Assignment 4

Answers to Assignment 4

Assignment 5

Assignment 6

Examinations:

Midterm Examination and Answers -- October 22

Final Examination -- December 12

If you have any comments or questions please contact:

Dr. Harvey King, Professor
Department of Economics
University of Regina
harvey.king@uregina.ca
Dr. King's Department of Economics web site
Dr. King's University of Regina web site


or

Paul Gingrich, Professor Emeritus
Department of Sociology and Social Studies
University of Regina
paul.gingrich@uregina.ca

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