| Course ID: | ECON 8070. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Statistics for Econometrics |
Course
Description: | The statistical foundations of econometrics, including probability, random variables, sampling, expectation, distribution functions, parametric and conditional distributions, independence, functions of random variables, and maximum likelihood. |
| Oasis Title: | STATS ECONOMETRICS |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | This course is designed to provide the student with the statistical fundamentals of
probability, estimation, and hypothesis testing that are necessary to understand the
other Econometrics courses and theory/field courses. |
| Topical Outline: | Probability
Bivariate Regression Model
Random Variables, Probability Distributions, and Expectations
Parametric Univariate Distributions
Joint and Conditional Distributions
Distributions of Functions of Random Variables
Sampling Distributions
Tests of Hypothesis |