Dr Nicholas Cron (COL2.04)

This course is available on the BSc in Accounting and Finance and BSc in Management. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.

Also available to students who have studied statistics and mathematics to the level of MA107/ST107 Quantitative Methods. Not to be taken in conjunction with ST203 Statistics for Management Sciences (Full unit).

A second course in statistics with an emphasis on problems of practical importance and statistical analysis using computers. Principles of modelling: data preparation, mathematical and statistical models, linear and non-linear models. Simple linear regression. Multiple regression: assumptions, transformations, diagnostics, model selection. Logistic regression: odds ratios and likelihood. Introduction to time series: smoothing, seasonal adjustment, autocorrelation.

20 hours of lectures and 16 hours of computer workshops in the LT. 4 hours of lectures in the ST.

Students will be given their assessed project to start on in week 6 which is due in at the end of LT.

Moodle quizzes and a quantitative research project.

Heij et al (2008), Econometric Methods with Applications in Business and Economics;

Baddeley & Barrowclough (2009), Running Regressions: A Practical Guide to Quantitative Research in Economics, Finance and Development Studies;

Diaz et al (2014), OpenIntro Statistics.

Exam (80%, duration: 2 hours) in the main exam period.
Coursework (20%) in the LT.