Dr G Lim Second semester Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week. On completion of this subject students should be able to:

• succinctly summarise the properties of data sets which typically arise in economics and finance, including their movement over time;
• know and understand the properties and uses of theoretical statistical distributions which are employed in economics and finance;
• use sample information to make statistical inferences about a population.

Data analysis; major probability distributions; point and interval estimation; hypothesis testing; analysis of variance. Applications to Accounting, Economics and Finance. A 2-hour end-of-semester examination (80 per cent) and assignment not exceeding 40 pages in total (20 per cent). Weiers Rm Introduction to Business Statistics 2nd Edition Dryden Press Students may not gain credit for both 316-129 Business Statistics and 316-130 Quantitative Methods 1.