Courseware
/
quantitative-methods
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Projects Releases Wiki Activity
You can not select more than 25 topics Topics must start with a letter or number, can include dashes ('-') and can be up to 35 characters long.
Branches Tags
${ item.name }
Create tag ${ searchTerm }
Create branch ${ searchTerm }
from 'fdc159328b'
${ noResults }
quantitative-methods/index.org

1.1 KiB
Raw Blame History

Quantitative Methods: Introduction

Title slide   slide 

(org-show-animate '("Quantitative Methods" "Introduction" "Vikas Rawal" "Prachi Bansal" "" "" ""))

Title slide 

(org-show-animate '("Why do financial journalists need to know quantitative methods?" "" "" ""))

What do we aim to achieve in this course?   slide

  • Make friends with numbers
  • Learn how to read numbers, how to present them, and how to write about them
  • Learn how to use computers to work with numbers

Two Types of Statistics   slide

Descriptive Statistics

  • Use summaries of data for the entire population to describe a population
  • Use summaries of sample data to describe a sample

Inferential Statistics

  • Use sample data to describe a population