Michael S. Hanson Department of Economics

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Econ 300: Course Outline

Below is a list of topics to be covered in the course, and approximate dates for the material. All readings are from the Wonnacott & Wonnacott textbook. Midterm exams will be given during class. Problem sets are available on-line, and are due in class the following week. Check the course web site for the current version of this schedule.

Date	Topic	Readings	Assignment Due
Wed, Sep. 5	Introduction	Ch. 1
Mon, Sep. 10	Descriptive Statistics	Ch. 2
Wed, Sep. 12	Probability	Ch. 3	P.S. #1
Mon, Sep. 17	Probability	Ch. 3
Wed, Sep. 19	Probability Distributions	Ch. 4	P.S. #2
Mon, Sep. 24	Probability Distributions	Ch. 4
Wed, Sep. 26	Probability Distributions	Chs. 4 & 5	P.S. #3
Mon, Oct. 1	Probability Distributions	Ch. 5
Wed, Oct. 3	Midterm #1		P.S. #4
Mon, Oct. 8	Sampling	Ch. 6
Wed, Oct. 10	Point Estimation	Ch. 7	P.S. #5
Wed, Oct. 17	Point Estimation, Confidence Intervals	Chs. 7 & 8
Mon, Oct. 22	Confidence Intervals	Ch. 8
Wed, Oct. 24	Confidence Intervals	Ch. 8	P.S. #6
Mon, Oct. 29	Hypothesis Testing	Ch. 9
Wed, Oct. 31	Hypothesis Testing	Ch. 9	P.S. #7
Mon, Nov. 5	Midterm #2
Wed, Nov. 7	Least Squares Estimation	Ch. 11	P.S. #8
Mon, Nov. 12	Simple Regression	Ch. 12
Wed, Nov. 14	Simple Regression	Ch. 12	P.S. #9
Mon, Nov. 19	Multiple Regression	Ch. 13	Paper Proposal
Mon, Nov. 26	Multiple Regression	Ch. 13	P.S. #10
Wed, Nov. 28	Multiple Regression	Chs. 13 & 14
Mon, Dec. 3	Regression Extensions	Chs. 14 & 15	P.S. #11
Wed, Dec. 5	Topics in Regression Analysis	TBA
Mon, Dec. 10	Topics in Regression Analysis	TBA	P.S. #12
Mon, Dec. 10	Research Paper due by 4 PM		Research Paper
Mon, Dec. 17	Final Exam: 2 - 5 PM