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Week No. Week Beg Topic No Topic Description
First Semester Text: Flaherty, Lombardo, Morgan, deSilva & Wilson
2 28th Feb.   No tutorials
3 6th March 2 Review of Introductory Statistics - Chapter 4: Q's 1, 2, 3 & 4
4 13th March 3 Moments about the Mean - Chapter 4: Q's 5, 6, 7, & 10
5 20th March 4 Introduction to Probability - Chapter 5: Q's 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5.
6 27th March 4 Introduction to Probability - Chapter 5: Q's 8, 9, 13 & 18
7 3rd April 5 Probability Distributions - Chapter 6: Q's 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5
8 10th April 6 Nonparametric Statistics Chapter 8: Q's 1 – 5 & 9
9 17th April 7 Mathematical Expectation - Chapter 5: 17, 18 & 19
20th-26th April Student Vacation (Includes Easter)
10 1st May 8 Simple Regression - Chapter 10: Q's 1 – 6
11 8th May 8 Inference in Regression - Chapter 10: Q's 7, 8, 12 – 16
12 15th May 8 Estimating The CAPM - Chapter 10: Q. 17
13 22nd May 9 Multiple Regression - Chapter 11: Q's 1, 3, 6, 8 & 10
14 29th May   Revision
Second Semester All exercises should be attempted before attending class
1 17th July   No tutorials
2 24th July 11 Least Squares Assumptions - Chapter 12: Q's 1, 2 and 3 (i)
3 31st July 12 Regression ANOVA - Chapter 11: Q's 11 and 16 (i) & (ii)
4 7th August 13 Functional form & Qualitative variables - Ch. 11: Q's 12, 13, 14, 15 & 17
5 14th August 14 Carrying out a Regression project
      Replicate the analysis in Section 12.6 and then do Chapter 11: Q. 18
6 21st August 15 Time Series – Decomposition - Chapter 13: Q's 1, 2, 4, 5 & 12
7 28th August 15 Time Series – Expo. Smoothing - Ch. 13: Q's 7, 8, 9, 10, 13 (i) & (ii)
8 4th Sept 15 Time Series – Model Selection - Ch. 13: Q. 15 (ignore Brown's seasonal)
9 11th Sept 17 Project analysis - Chapter 20: Q's 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6
  18th - 29th Sept   Student Vacation
10 2nd October 17 Project analysis - Chapter 20: Q's 7, 8, 10 and 12
11 9th October 17 Project analysis - Chapter 20: Q 19
12 16th October   Revision
  PR220 Home   All exercises should be attempted before attending class