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Statistics for economists

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 151-0005/02
Abbreviation SPE
Course title Statistics for economists
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Mathematical Methods in Economics
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Václav Friedrich, Ph.D.

Osnova předmětu

1. Statistics and statistical thinking
2. Presentation of statistical data
3. Descriptive statistics of categorical data
4. Descriptive statistics of numerical data
5. Pooled and interval data
6. Association, contingency tables
7. Correlation and regression, time series
8. Probability and probability calculations
9. Conditional probability, decision trees
10. Random variable and probability distribution
11. Normal distribution, limit theorems
12. Basics of statistical induction

E-learning

The subject is supported by an interactive course in LMS Moodle.
Ongoing tasks are submitted and assessed via LMS Moodle.

Povinná literatura

LIND, Douglas A.; MARCHAL, William, G. and WATHEN, Samuel A. Basic Statistics in Business and Economics. 10th Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2021. 640 p. ISBN 978-1260597578 .
SALKIND, Neil J. and FREY, Bruce B. Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics: Using Microsoft Excel. Fifth Edition. London: SAGE Publications, 2021. 512 p. ISBN 978-1071803882 .
TAYLOR, Sonia. Business Statistics for Non-Mathematicians. 2nd Edition. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 368 p. ISBN 978-0-230-50646-6.

Doporučená literatura

CAMM, Jeffrey D. et al. Statistics for Business and Economics. 15th Edition. Boston: Cengage Learning, 2023. 1120 p. ISBN 978-0357715857 .
COHEN, Louis and HOLLIDAY, Michael. Practical Statistics for Students: An Introductory Text. 2nd Edition. London: SAGE Publications, 1996 (reprinted 2013). 384 p. ISBN 978-1853963292 .
MOHR, Donna L.; WILSON, William J. and FREUND, Rudolf J. Statistical Methods. 4th Edition. London: Elsevier, 2021. 784 p. ISBN 978-0128230435 .