Mathematics for Economists

Catalog description

Mathematics for Economists will cover a variety of mathematical and statistical topics that are used in core MSQE curriculum. These would include: logarithmic/exponential functions, polynomial functions, differential calculus, integral calculus, the Taylor approximation, static optimization including the Lagrangian technique, introduction to matrix algebra, basic linear algebra and systems of linear equations, probability, probability distributions, the normal distribution, moments, statistical estimation, the Central Limit Theorem, hypothesis testing, simple linear regression, and the matrix form of the multiple linear regression model.