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Revision as of 19:57, 20 June 2013
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.
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.
| Topic | MA Economics | MSc Economics |
|---|---|---|
| Preliminaries and Notation | Yes | Yes |
| Data types | Yes | Yes |
| Graphical Representation | 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) | [1] | |
| Exchange Rate USD/UKP | Board of Governors of the Federal reserve System | [2] | |
| UK Gross Domestic Product | OECD | [3] | |
| Passengers on the Titanic | [4] |
