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• Students in this course are expected to attend two 1-hour lectures and one 2-hour practical (tutorial) class each week.
• PRACTICALS (tutorials) commence in WEEK 2  AND  ASSESSMENT in practicals BEGINS in WEEK 2.
• ECON100BR Bradford Students are asked to read the ECON 1008 Course Outline.

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Apply correctly a variety of statistical techniques, both descriptive and inferential.
2. Interpret, in plain language, the application and outcomes of statistical techniques.
3. Interpret computer output and use it to solve problems.
4. Recognize inappropriate use or interpretation of statistics in other courses, in the media and in life in general and comment critically on the appropriateness of this use of statistics.

• Before the practicals, students will be expected to have attended or watched and understood the lectures and to have read the relevant chapter(s) from the text book.
• During the practical,
  • First, students will be asked to record their attendance.
  • Multiple choice question test will be done in teams.
  • Individual written tests will be done as per advised.
  • There will be time for discussion and questions about the week’s work.
  • Finally, students will be required to work on worked answer questions, again in their teams.
• After the practicals, each team is required to hand in their answers to the worked answer questions, to their tutor.  Some of these questions will be marked and returned in the following practical.

The workload for this course should consist of:

• Attend lectures 2 hours per week
• Attend tutorials 2 hours per week
• Study textbook 4 hours per week
• Prepare tutorial answer 4 hours per week

• Introduction and data
• Descriptive statistics
• Correlation and regression
• Randomness, random variables and probability
• Sampling and sampling distributions
• Inference—estimation and hypothesis tests for one proportion and one mean
• Inference in regression
• Topics in multiple regression
• Time series analysis
• Index numbers

Final exam (60%)

• This is of 3 hours duration, plus 10 minutes reading time.
• Statistical tables are provided.
• This exam covers the whole semester.
• Please note that, following 最新糖心Vlog policy, dictionaries are not allowed in School of Economics exams.
• Graphics calculators are allowed but are not required.
• Legible hand-writing and the quality of English expression are considered to be integral parts of the assessment process. If we can’t read what you have written, we can’t give marks for it.  Students are advised to use a black pen in the exam; write clearly, BEGIN each question ON A NEW PAGE and do not use white out or pencil.

Individual Written Tests (10%)

• It is anticipated there will be 4 short written tests conducted during practicals (tutorials) during the semester, where the best 3 written tests will be counted towards assessment.  It is anticipated that students will be given one week's notice for each written test via MyUni.
• Medical and compassionate extensions: Unfortunately, late attempts at the written tests are not possible, even for valid medical or compassionate reasons. Students are advised to contact the course coordinator to discuss options.

Individual Mid-Semester Test (10%)

• This test is fully redeemable, in that if students choose not to do this test or are unable to do the test or fail this test, the weighting of the test is added to the weighting of the final exam. No special consideration will be given to students who miss the Mid-Semester Test for medical, compassionate or any other reason. 

• As of week 2 to week 11, there will weekly MCQ tests, so a total of 10 MCQ tests over the semester.
• The best 7 of these 10 MCQ tests will be counted for assessment.
• Because not all of these marks count for assessment, no special consideration will be given to students who miss a practical class for medical, compassionate or any other reason. 

• As of week 2 to week 11, there will be weekly Team WAQs, so a total of 10 Team WAQs over the semester. 
• The best 7 of these 10 WAQ assignments will be counted for assessment.
• Because not all of these marks count for assessment, no special consideration will be given to students who miss a practical class for medical, compassionate or any other reason.

Redemption

There is no extra work that can be done to redeem individual components of assessment during the semester, no matter the reason; however if the final exam mark (%) exceeds the mark (%) on any other assessment, then the exam mark automatically takes its place.