Course Name	Statistics for Agricultural Economics
Credits	3
Professor(s)	Name	Sang-Gon Jeon
	Affiliation	Dept. of Agricultural Economics

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Objectives

The main objective of this course is to explain the basic principles of Statistics to the undergraduate level students whose major is an agricultural economics.

MAIN TEXTBOOK and FURTHER READINGS

Statistics and Econometrics: Methods and Applications, Ashenfelter, Levine, Zimmerman, John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

ASSIGNMENTS AND GRADING

Assignments: #4

Grading Scheme: Mid-term Exam: 30%, Final Exam: 40%, Attendance&Homework: 30%

COURSE SCHEDULE

Course Outline

Week1: Introduction

Week2: Basic Probability Theory

Week3:   "

Week4: Random Variables and Probability Distributions

Week5:   "

Week6: Mathematics of Expectations

Week7:   "  (Mid-term Exam)

Week8: Multivariate Distributions

Week9:   "

Week10: Sampling and Sampling Distributions

Week11:  "

Week12: Estimation

Week13:  "

Week14: Interval Estimation and Hypothesis Testing

Week15: "   (Final Exam)

CONTACT DETAILS

Tel: 055-772-1846 e-mail: sanggon@gnu.ac.kr