Preparatory course in Statistics and Econometrics

Seminar

Instructors:	Benjamin Säfken (lectures, 10:15 - 11:45) Holger Reulen (practice, 14:00 - 15:30)
Time:	October 7 - 11, 2013
Venue:	MZG 8.163
Sundry:	The course language is English.

Course overview

This lecture provides an overview of the topics in statistics and mathematics, which are required for the Econometrics courses in the upcoming winter semester.

Contents:

Probabilities - Quantification of Randomness

Random variables, their distributions and important indicators

Special continuous distributions

Special discrete distributions

Confidence intervals

Statistical testing

Linear regression

Matrix calculus

Literature

Wassermann, L. (2004): "All of Statistics: A Concise Course in Statistical Inference", 2nd edition, Springer, Heidelberg.

Further Information

Course page on UniVZ

Updated: September 17, 2013