Fall 2012, Econ 500 – Part 2

Quantitative Methods in Economic Analysis I

Syllabus

Lecture notes

Lecture 1 – sample point approach

Lectures 2 and 3 – conditional probability, Bayes Theorem,

Lecture 4– discrete probability distributions and their properties

Lectures 5-7 – binomial, geometric, hypergeometric and poisson distributions

Lecture 8 – Moment generating function, Tchebycheff’s inequality

Lecture 9 – Continuous random variables

Lectures 10-12 – Uniform, Normal, Gamma, Beta

Lecture 13 – Elements of multivariate distribution

Practice Exercise sets for Recitation sessions

Practice set # 1

Practice set # 2

Practice set # 3

Practice set # 4

Practice set # 5

Practice set # 6

HW Problem Sets

Problem set # 1

Problem set # 2

Problem set # 3

Solutions to HW and Practice problems will be handed out during the Rec sessions

Formula sheet for Final Exam