Course Description

Economics 222a/b Intermediate Econometrics I

An introduction to econometric description and inference which covers: descriptive statistics for cross-section and time-series samples; probability, discrete and continuous probability distributions, random variables; estimators and sampling distributions; confidence intervals and tests of hypotheses; simple linear regression for normal and non-normal populations.

Antirequisites: Economics 122a/b, Health Sciences 201 and all other courses and half-courses in Introductory Statistics except Economics 223a/b and Statistical Sciences 023a/b and 024a/b.

Prerequisites: Economics 020 or 021; and Mathematics 030, or Calculus 050a/b and one of Calculus 051a/b, 081a/b, or Linear Algebra 040a/b

3 lecture hours, half course.

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