Course Outline (Tentative and subject to change)

      A - Anderson Text in Aplia
      C- Clayton Text
      E - Eviews (software)
      LA - Look At (for general information)
      Ex - Excel

Date
Topic
Material
(to be read before class)
Tuesday January 19, 2010 (Week 1)

Introductions and Review of Class Info
Friday Lab - Intro Lab, Excel, Eviews

A - Intro and Chapter 1
Objectives

C - Chapter 1: Introduction
Ex - Tutorial (A - Appendix E)
Econsources

1/25/10 (Week 2)

Descriptive Statistics: Tabular and Graphical Presentations
Videos (Statistics)

Assignment One

A - Chapter 2
Objectives

2/1/10 (Week 3) Descriptive Statistics: Numerical Measures

A - Chapter 3
Objectives

2/8/10 (Week 4)

Regression as a Curve Fitting Exercise
Simple and Multivariate Linear Regression  

Assignment Two

A - Chapter 12 (part)
Objectives

2/15/10 (Week 5)

2/15/10 Monday President's Day (no classes)

Measures and Use of Everyday Economic Statistics

C - Appendix Chain Weighting
C - Chapter 2: Total Output & Income
C - Chapter 3: Production and Growth
C - Chapter 4: Investment & Capital Expenditures

2/22/10 (Week 6)

2/23/10, 2/25/10, 2/25/10 Tues, Wed, Thur No Class

Measures and Use of Everyday Economic Statistics

Assignment Three

C - Chapter 5: Employment and Unemployment
C - Chapter 6: Spending, Profits, and Expectations
C - Chapter 7: Prices, Money, and Interest Rates
C - Chapter 8: Stock Prices and International Trade

3/1/10 (Week 7)

Introduction to Probability
Exam 1 - Thur March 4 ((Take Home Part Distributed - Due Tues March 9th)

Review All of Clayton
A - Chapter 4
Objectives
3/8/10 (Week 8)

Discrete Probability Distributions

Assignment Four

A - Chapter 5
Objectives
3/15/10 (Spring Break) No Classes  
3/22/10 (Spring Break) No Classes  
3/29/10 (Week 9)  Continuous Probability Distributions

A - Chapter 6
Objectives

4/5/10 (Week 10)

4/5/10 Tues Undergraduate Conference No Class

Sampling and Sampling Distributions

A - Chapter 7
Objectives

4/12/10 (Week 11)

Interval Estimation
Ron Foster Lecture
(Cancelled)

Assignment Five

A - Chapter 8
Objectives

4/19/10 (Week 12)

4/22/10 Thurs No Class

Hypothesis Tests

EXAM 2

A - Chapter 9
Objectives

4/26/10 (Week 13) Comparisons Involving Means

A - Chapter 10
Objectives

5/3/2010 (Week 14)

Regression and Multivariate Regression

 

A - Chapter 12 & 13 (part)
Objectives

5/10/2010 (Week 15)

5/11/10 Tues Last Day of Class - Review
5/12/10 Wed Reading Day

 
5/13/2010

Thursday 9-11am Comprehensive Final Exam

 

 


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