ECON 600 - Advanced Quantitative Methods for Economists

Units: 4
Mathematics and statistics for graduate economic and econometric theory.

Prerequisites: Post-baccalaureate standing.
Equivalent Quarter Course: ECON 6101.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Apply single-variable calculus to economic decision making, including pricing and profit maximization.
Apply constrained optimization methods to economic decision making, including utility maximization and cost minimization.
Understand important concepts in probability theory, including discrete and continuous random variables and probability distributions, and their applications to economics.
Calculate and use various sample statistics to estimate population parameters, and understand their relationship to sample coefficient estimates in econometrics.