Statistics for Social Sciences - BFE0022

Assessment 1: Other

Activities providing opportunities for formative assessment will generally be integrated into the teaching and learning process and apply to all components of summative assessment.  The nature of the formative assessment tasks used will be at the discretion of the tutor, to include for example, workshop exercises, quizzes, group discussions. 

Other

Assessment 1: Written Assignment

Written Assignment

<p>This module will introduce you to statistical methods necessary for the study of applied economics and social sciences. You’ll be introduced to modern economic theory and this will be linked to applied content. Statistical and quantitative techniques will be used to gain a greater understanding of economic data and applied economics and help you develop an understanding of how these might be applied to real world data, as well as giving you the skills and experience to carry out data analyses that are often required in the economics profession.</p>

Huddersfield Business School

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Economics

BFE0022 - Statistics for Social Sciences

Statistics for Social Sciences

Understand a range of statistical techniques and their potential applications in economics.

Identify how the techniques learning might be useful in a range of economic analyses.

Use a range of statistical techniques and appropriate statistical software in investigating well defined economic and social problems.

Identify and describe the properties of statistics produced from a range of methods.

Understand how to interpret and emphasise the meaning of results produced using statistical techniques.

Use statistical methods to explain and inform discussions of economic theory.