Statistics

This page is currently being build and should be completed for the start of Academic Year 2013/14.

The purpose of these pages is to give prospective and current postgraduate students in Economics at The University of Manchester an opportunity to understand what Statistics knowledge they are expected to have and, of course, a source of revision information. The material presented here is largely based on material written by our colleagues Len Gill, Denise Osborn and Chris Orme at The University of Manchester.

This page is explicitly designed with MSc Economics (and/or Econometrics) and MA Economics students at The University of Manchester in mind. Below you will be able to identify which topic is expected knowledge for the MSc/MA.

The Basics

Topic		MA Economics	MSc Economics
Preliminaries and Notation		Yes	Yes
Data types		Yes	Yes
Graphical Representation		Yes	Yes
Descriptive Statistics		Yes	Yes
Correlation & Regression	Exercises	Correlation only	Yes

Probability

Topic	MA Economics	MSc Economics
Introduction to Probability	Yes	Yes
Conditional Probability	Yes	Yes
Discrete Random Variables	Yes	Yes
Normal Distribution	Yes	Yes
Moments and Expectations	Yes	Yes

Example Data Sets

Throughout these pages a few example datasets will be used.

Description	Organisation	Data File	Source
Data used to calculate a quality of Life Index	OECD (collecting data from various sources)	BetterLifeIndex.xls	[1]
Exchange Rate USD/UKP	Board of Governors of the Federal reserve System	USDUKP.xlsx	[2]
UK Gross Domestic Product	Office of national Statistics	UK_GDP_INF.xlsx	[3]
Passengers on the Titanic		Titanic.xlsx	[4]
CO2 and GDP	Gapminder.com	GDP_CO2.xlsx	[5]