Statistical Methods

Overview

The course covers basic statistics for economics, finance and accounting students and assumes no prior knowledge. The two main areas of statistics covered are descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. The emphasis is on the application of the statistical techniques to problems relevant to these subjects.

Learning Objectives

To enable economics, finance and accounting students gain a basic knowledge and understanding of statistical methods. To provide a background for higher level quantitative modules.

Skills

The student should be able to apply statistical methods to economic and business data and critically assess simple techniques.

Assessment

Students must achieve an overall mark of 40% in the module to pass