Instructor: Ketian Guan

Prerequisites: ECON 2a or ECON 10a. Students must earn a C- or higher in MATH 10a, or otherwise satisfy the calculus requirement, to enroll in this course. May not be taken concurrently with ECON 184b or repeated by students after the successful completion of ECON 184b.

Course Description: This is the first course in probability and statistics for students in economics and business. Topics to be covered include: descriptive statistics, central tendencies, set notation, bivariate data, probability distribution functions, cumulative distribution functions, expectation, variance, normal and binomial distributions, sampling distributions, point estimation, properties of estimators, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and linear regression.

Session: Session II

Day: M, T, Th

Time: 8:30am - 11:00am

Credit Hours: 4 Credits

Course Format: Remote Learning Course for Summer 2026

Brandeis Graduation Requirement Fulfilled: DL, QR, SS

Course Classification: Undergraduate Level Course

Course Tuition: $3,825

Course Fees: None

Open to High School Students: No