ECON 210 - Quantitative Methods for Economists

Units: 3
Applications of mathematics and statistics to economic decision making.

Prerequisites: MATH 110 or MATH 130, or MATH 180; and STAT 100 or STAT 110.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Graph various functional forms with an emphasis on demand and cost functions;
Calculate the maximum and minimum of algebraic functions with applications to utility, cost, and profit functions;
Understand basic concepts in probability including random variables and probability distributions;
Calculate and use various sample statistics to estimate population parameters;
Estimate and interpret the results of linear regressions with one regressor using a modern software package.