Course Details
Country:
Netherlands
Institution:
Free University of Amsterdam
Course Title:
Quantitative Research Methods II
Course Number:
E_EBE2_QRM2
Course Description:
Economics is a scientific discipline in which quantitative data are key. Theoretical considerations of the effect of minimum wages on unemployment, or the effect of bonuses on the performance of employees, are useful, but the final test is not the theory but confrontation with practical data. Unfortunately such data are rarely if ever completely unambiguous. Business cycles go up one day, and go down the other day, and usually there are more factors to cause noise in the data. Statistics provides means to draw reliable conclusions from data. The modern economist must therefore be able to handle statistics and to handle statistical software to visualize data. In this course such skills are taught: statistical analyses connected to theoretical topics are carried out using R.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
Pending For Approval
Attachment Files:
Studyguide (11)_6.pdf
