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BE-304-1 Statistics and Finance

Bachelor's Programme in Business Administration , , Master's Programme in Business Administration (5-years)

Autumn

English

Minimum 60 ECTS credits in Business Administration

Upon completion of this course students should be able to find and analyze different types of data economic and administrative interest assess different types of design of experiments and statistical methods. The students should also be able to evaluate if the basis for a method is satisfied. Ethical questions related to some type of experiments will also be discussed calculate and interpret different statistical measures for relationship in data use multiple regression and interpret the results in view of econometric problems use analysis of variance and interpret the results

This course will give the students a more deep understanding of how statistical methods are used in financial economics than the first course on statistics. The students will learn to collect data from different sources and data-bases and use the data in analysis. The course will therefore help the students to connect mathematics/statistics to financial models ant theories. Advanced use of MS Excel will be a part of the course.

Lectures, group work and PC-lab

1 assignment must be handed in and be approved in order to sit for the exam.

4-hour written examination. Graded marks.

Theoretical

Undergraduate

Normally third year

Head of Department Andre Tofteland or Academic International Coordinator Oddmund Wallevik

Face-to-face

The syllabus will be published on the home page of the course when finalised. See link in the upper right hand corner of the page.

MA-1020- 1 - 5 ECTS credits
MA-1020- 2 - 5 ECTS credits

Yes

Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences

ECTS Course Catalogue University of Agder 2009-10
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