Instructor: Gökhan Özertan
Office: NB 202
Phone: (212) 359-76-45
E-mail:
ozertan@boun.edu.tr
Class Time: Wednesday 18:30-21:20
Office Hours: by appointment
Course website: http://econ.boun.edu.tr/ozertan/ef507
Required Textbook: Statistics for Business and Economics by Newbold, Carlson and Thorne. 6th Edition, 2007, Prentice-Hall.
Course Outline:
| September 24 | Wed | Ch 1: Why Study Statistics |
| October 8 | Wed | Ch 2: Describing Data: Graphical |
| October 15 | Wed | Ch 3: Describing Data: Numerical |
| October 22 | Wed | Ch 4: Probability |
| October 27 | Mon | Ch 5: Discrete Random Variables and Probability Distributions |
| November 5 | Wed | Ch 6: Continuous Random Variables and Probability |
| November 12 | Wed | Ch 7: Sampling and Sampling Distributions |
| November 24 | Mon | MIDTERM EXAM |
| November 26 | Wed | Ch 8-9: Estimation |
| December 1 | Mon | Ch 10: Hypothesis Testing I |
| December 17 | Wed | Ch 11: Hypothesis Testing II |
| December 24 | Wed | Ch 12: Simple Regression |
| December 26 | Fri | Ch 13: Multiple Regression |
| January 13 | Tue | FINAL EXAM |
Computer Software:
For the exercises you can use the Excel add-in's that come with your
textbook. Later in the semester we will also work with the E-Views software.
Make-Up Exam: Make-up exams can be taken provided that you have an official doctor's report approved by the related office of the University. The make-up exam will be 2 weeks after the midterm. It will cover the material of the midterm AND the two weeks' material following the midterm.
Grading:
Weekly Quizzes (10%), Midterm (40%), comprehensive Final (50%).
I may also assign exercises and homeworks.
| Chapter 1 | Chapter 8 |
| Chapter 2 | Chapter 9 |
| Chapter 3 | Chapter 10 |
| Chapter 4 | Chapter 11 |
| Chapter 5 | Chapter 12 |
| Chapter 6 | Chapter 13 |
| Chapter 7 |