Econ 500: Quantitative Methods in Economic Analysis I

 

Instructor: [Arne Hallam]

Class Location & Time: 274 Heady  MW 11:00-12:00  F 13:00-14:00

Course Outline: Syllabus

Course Materials
Functions and Equations	Systems of Equations
Univariate Calculus	Simple Optimization
Convexity and Optimization	Multivariate Calculus
Multivariate Optimization	Simple Constrained Optimization
Introduction to Matrix_Algebra	Matrix Algebra
Geometry of_Matrices	Quadratic_Forms
Characteristic Vectors	General Constrained Optimization
Implicit Function Theorem	Comparative Statics
Econonomic_Optimality

Statistics
Probability Concepts	Random Variables
Specific Probability Distributions	Multivariate Probability Distributions
Transformations of Random Variables	Sample Moments
Basic Statistics	Quadratic Forms and Normal Variables
Testing

Mathematica
IntroToMathematica	Calculus
Single Variable Optimization	Multivariate Calculus
Multiple Variable Optimization
Matrix Algebra	Advanced Matrix Algebra
Mathematica Exercise

Links
Econ 501 Homepage

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