ECON2250 - Statistics for Economist

This page contains an outline of the topics, content, and assignments for the semester. Note that this schedule will be updated as the semester progresses, with all changes documented here.

week dow date topic chapters prepare slides notes hw lab project due
Part I
Probability and Data
1 Mo Aug 18 Probability **(Asynchronous)** JA 2; SDG 1

We Aug 20 Conditional probability & Independence **(Async.)** JA 3; SDG 2.1-2.3
HW 01 assigned
2 Mo Aug 25 Welcome to ECON2250!

We Aug 27 Combinatorics (Counting methods) JA 4; SDG 1.7-1.9

3 Mo Sep 1 No Lecture: Labor Day HW 01 due
We Sep 3 Data and Descriptive Statistics I JA 5,6 HW 02 assigned
4 Mo Sep 8 Data and Descriptive Statistics II JA 7
We Sep 10 Lab 01: Intro to R and Exam I Review JA 1 HW 02 due
Part II
Random Variables and Distributions
5 Mo Sep 15 Exam 1: In-class Lab 01 due
We Sep 17 Lab 02: Data type JA 5
6 Mo Sep 22 Discrete random variables JA 8; SDG 3.1 Lab 02 due
We Sep 24 Lab 03: Descriptive statistics and visualization JA 6,7
7 Mo Sep 29 Model of discrete random variables JA 9; SDG 5.2-5.4 Lab 03 due
We Oct 1 Continuous random variables JA 10; SDG 3.2
8 Mo Oct 6 No Lecture: Fall Break HW 03 assigned
We Oct 8 Model of continuous random variables JA 11; SDG 5.6, 8.2
9 Mo Oct 13 Expectation and Moments SDG 4.1-4.7 HW 03 due
We Oct 15 Exam II Review Exam 2 (Take-Home) assigned
Fri Oct 17
Exam 2 due
Part III
Statistical Inference
10 Mo Oct 20 Sampling distributions JA 12,13; SDG 8
We Oct 22 Estimation and confidence intervals JA 14 HW04 assigned
11 Mo Oct 27 Hypothesis testing I JA 16; SDG 9
We Oct 29 Hypothesis testing II JA 16; SDG 9 HW04 due
12 Mo Nov 3 Lab 04: Hypothesis testing JA 16; SDG 9
We Nov 5 Project proposal presentation
13 Mo Nov 10 Multiple hypothesis testing: the Wald test JA 16; SDG 9 Lab 04 due
We Nov 12 Simple linear regression JA 17; SDG 11.1-11.2
14 Mo Nov 17 Lab 05: Simple linear regression
We Nov 19 Advanced topics JA 15,18; SDG 12.6 Lab 05 due
15 Mo Nov 24 No lecture: Work on final project Statistics experience due
We Nov 26 No lecture: Thanksgiving break
16 Mo Dec 1 Final project presentation I Final project due
Exam period TBD Dec 8 Final exam (official GT exam date)