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.

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
Descriptive Statistics	Yes	Yes
Correlation & Regression	Correlation only	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	Office of national Statistics		[3]
Passengers on the Titanic		Titanic.xlsx	[4]