Assessment materials for Statistics in Economics

DeSTRESS project interactive questions

Created by Martin Greenhow and Abdulrahman Kamavi, Brunel University and released under a Creative Commons Attribution licence.

This set allows you to choose from 11 topics each comprising questions that produce thousands of different questions at runtime. They are part of the MathsEG online service, which you can configure via the teacher interface.

Topics:

1. Notation and basics: sigma notation, summations, data types
2. Measures of location: arithmetic mean, median, mode
3. Measures of dispersion - percentiles: deciles, general percentiles, lower quartiles, upper quartiles, using quartiles
4. Measures of dispersion - variance and st.dev.: range, population deviation, population variance, sample deviation, sample variance
5. Correlation and regression: PMCC, SRCC, regression
6. Probability: definitions, addition rule general, addition rule independent events, addition rule mutually exclusive events, multiplication rule conditional, multiplication rule independent events, Bayes theorem, combinations, permutations
7. Discrete random distributions: cumulative, expected values, properties, variance
8. Normal distribution: confidence intervals, contextual, decontextual, standard normal distribution, two bounds
9. Binomial distribution: cumulative using theory, cumulative using tables, expectation, single event, standard deviation, variance
10. Poisson distribution: approximation to the binomial, cumulative
11. Forecasting: error measures, exponential smoothing, moving averages, seasonal variation

University of Sussex

The below assessment questions and exercises are presented without answers.

Class exercises

• Class exercise 2
• Class exercise 3
• Class exercise 4
• Class exercise 5
• Class exercise 6
• Class exercise 7
• Class exercise 8
• Class exercise 9

Class exercises in Excel

• Excel class 1
• Excel class 2
• Excel class 3

Assessed coursework projects

• Project 1: The Relationship between Criminal Activity, Deterrence and the Unemployment Rate
• Project 2: The Determinants of Female Labour Force Participation in the USA
• Project 3: The Determinants of Household Poverty in the USA

Exams

• Final examination, 2005
• Final examination, 2006
• Final examination, 2007

Jonathan Parker, Keele University

Worksheets from PIR20069 - Approaches to Political Analysis

• Scientific Method
• Causality
• Contrasting Traditional Scientific Method with Interpretivism
• Ontology and Epistemology
• Research Design - Threats to Validity

 

External links

Stephen Ansolabehere, MIT

Quantitative Research in Political Science and Public Policy

MIT OpenCourseWare from 2004, lecture notes, exams and solutions. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) Licence