Course content
The course introduces you to basic quantitative business analysis and statistics. By emphasizing homework exercises with concrete examples of statistical analysis, general concepts and methodological issues, the pedagogy of the course is designed to make you an educated user of quantitative methods rather than a statistician. Topics include: data representation and summary measures; exploratory data analysis, data collection and basic research design; probability theory and distributions, sampling distributions, confidence intervals, significance tests, contingency tables and Bayesian inference, analysis of proportions, single and multivariate regression analysis, analysis of variance, and problems with false positives in academic research. Examples will be drawn from sustainability, business economics, and cultural and political analysis.
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