Decision Sciences Methods
Graduate course, Master in Methods for Public Policy Analysis (METPOL), Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) Región Centro, 2020
This course is aimed at students of the Master in Methods for Public Policy Analysis (METPOL) who need rigorous knowledge of probability and statistics with public policy applications.
Course goals and objectives
At the end of this course, students must understand and be able to apply the concepts of
- probability
- distributions
- central limit theorem
- statistical estimate
- estimate by maximum likelihood 6. estimate by Bayesian methods 7. hypothesis testing and
- ordinary least squares