Course Code and name

 

ECO239 Statistics I

Course Type

 

Compulsory

Course Credit

 

3  0   3

ECTS Credit

 

5

Lecturer

 

İbrahim Özkan

Pre-requisite(s)

-

Course Length

 

1 Semester  (3 Theoretic hours per week)

 

Course Content

·        Describing the data

·        Descriptive relationships and statistics

·        Introduction to probability theory

·        Discrete and continuous random variables

·        Probability distributions

Course Objective and Fulfillments to be obtained by Students

 

The purpose of this course is to introduce basic concepts of statistics such as collecting and describing data, probability theory and probability distributions of discrete and continuous random variables. At the end of the course the students shall be able to collect and handle the data to conduct explanatory analysis and be acquainted with probability theory and probablity distributions, and thus shall be prepared to hypothesis testing and statistical decision theory.

References

 

Newbold, P., Carlson, W. L., and Thorne, B. “Statistics for Business and Economics”, Fifth Edition, 2003, Prentice Hall

 

Prem S. Mann., “Statistics for Business and Economics”, 1995, Wiley Publishers

Teaching Method

 

 

 

 

 

Teaching, Discussions.

Assessment Method

2 Midterm Exams (%50) and Final Exam (%50). 

Instruction Language

English