PROFESSOR RAMANATHAN'S ECON 120A --- SPRING 2003
TOPICS TO BE COVERED AND HANDOUT REFERENCES



Name of topic Handout #1 Section No. Handout #2 Section No.
Probability Theory
Sample Space, Sample points, and Events 2.1
Some results from Set theory and Boolean Algebra 2.2
Definitions of probability 2.3
Frequency polygon and histogram 2.3 2.1
Conditional probability, Bayes Theorem, and statistical independence 2.3 2.3
Random variables 3.0 2.1
Probability and Distribution functions 3.1 2.1
Examples of discrete and continuous distributions 3.2 and 3.3 2.1
Mathematical expectation, mean, variance, mode, coefficient of variation, skewness, Kurtosis 3.5 2.2
Covariance and Correlation 2.3
Mathematical Statistics
Random Sampling and Sampling Distributions 2.4
Procedures for Estimating Parameters 2.5
Properties of Estimators 2.6
Interval Estimation 2.9
Chi-square, t-, and F- Distributions 2.7
Testing Hypotheses 2.8