Statistics

Maths in Economics

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Johnston A. R. and Bhattacharyya G. K., (2005). Statistics. Principles and Methods. 5th edition, Wiley, 1996.

Familiarizing students with basic statistical concepts and methods of examining regularities occurring in mass processes, shaping students practical skills in using the Excel spreadsheet and the STATISTICA program to process statistical data and interpreting the obtained results, shaping students' creativity in obtaining statistical data from internet sources for the purposes of conducting innovative socio-economic analyzes

1. Statistics as a science. Basic concepts of descriptive statistics.

Data presentation methods. Introduction to statistical research.

Statistical packages and their use.

2. Basic parameters of statistical description (measures of position, differentiation, asymmetry and flattening). Measurement of phenomenon concentration and comparison of phenomena structures.

3. Study of the interdependence of two features. Basic parameters of the description of the correlation between the features. Classical linear regression model.

4. Chronological average. Individual and aggregate indexes of dynamics. Time series and its components. Time series smoothing (moving averages, exponential smoothing). Periodic fluctuation analysis (periodic fluctuation indicators for the time series without and with trend, multiplicative and additive fluctuations). Development tendency of the phenomenon - trends and their types. Linear trend analysis.

5. Random variable (discrete and continuous) and its distribution. Parameters of the distribution of a random variable.

5. Random variable (discrete and continuous) and its distribution. Parameters of the distribution of a random variable. Probability distributions. Examples of probability distributions of a random variable (binomial, Poisson, normal, chisquare, Student's t).

6. Estimation, estimator. Point and interval estimation.

Confidence interval for the mean, variance and standard deviation, and the structure index. Determining the minimum size of a random sample.

7. Verification of statistical hypotheses. Hypothesis testing

Statistics for business and economics, Mc Clave, Sincich, Benson, Pearson Education, 2014

Basic business statistics : concepts and applications, Berenson, Levine, Szabat, Pearson 2015

Fundamentals of descriptive statistics , Z C Holcomb, 2016, Routledge

Fundamentals of Statistics, Vol. I & II, . Goon A.M., Gupta M.K. and Dasgupta B., 2002, The World Press, Kolkata

Mood, A.M. Graybill, F.A. and Boes, D.C. (2007): Introduction to the Theory of

Statistics, 3rd Edn., (Reprint), Tata McGraw-Hill Pub. Co.Ltd.

Mukhopadhyay, P. (1999): Applied Statistics, New Central Book Agency