ECON214-17S1 (C) Semester One 2017

Special Topic: Data Analytics for Business Economics

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2017
End Date: Sunday, 25 June 2017
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 5 March 2017
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 21 May 2017

Description

This course teaches basic skills in the statistical analysis of economic data. The emphasis is on applying and doing. Students will learn how to (i) develop a regression model, (ii) estimate it, and (iii) interpret it. General topics include OLS regression, prediction, dummy variables, model specification, model selection, robust standard errors, time series forecasting, endogeneity, and qualitative choice models (logit and probit). This course uses the software package EViews and Excel.

Prerequisites

(1)  ECON104 or 105 (2)  STAT101

Restrictions

Course Coordinator

For further information see Department of Economics and Finance Head of Department

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Course Outline

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $775.00

International fee $3,188.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 20 people apply to enrol.

For further information see Department of Economics and Finance .

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  • ECON214-17S1 (C) Semester One 2017
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