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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 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 in mind. Below you will be able to identify which topic is expected knowledge for the MSc/MA.
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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.
  
 
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Revision as of 15:04, 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]