Statistics for Economics I

1.00 credits · Undergraduate

This course is an introduction to basic statistics with economic applications. It is followed by a course on Statistics for Economics II, <a href="/content/ryerson/calendar/2026-2027/courses/economics/ECN/329.html" class="qTipCourse" data-url="/content/ryerson/calendar/2026-2027/courses/economics/ECN/329/jcr:content/resCalendarCourseEmbed.json">ECN 329</a>. Statistics is a science of getting information from data. It consists of a set of analytical techniques that can be applied to data to help us make judgments and decisions in problems involving uncertainty. This course deals with the description, analysis and interpretation of data. It covers topics in descriptive statistics, basic probability theory, discrete and continuous distributions, and sampling distributions.