ECON 101: STATISTICS FOR ECONOMICS
University of California, Riverside
5 Units, Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour; laboratory, 1 hour; individual study, 2 hours. Prerequisite(s): MATH 005B or MATH 007A or MATH 009A or MATH 09HA or MATH 022; or equivalent. An introduction to the basic statistical methods for economics. Topics include economic data analysis, index numbers,univariate and bivariate probability distributions, correlation and regression, sampling distributions, properties of estimators, and hypothesis testing.
Average GPA: 2.82
Grade distribution records: 4,443 students across 40 terms.
Grade distribution
| Grade | Students | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| A+ | 122 | 2.7% |
| A | 981 | 22.1% |
| A- | 513 | 11.5% |
| B+ | 421 | 9.5% |
| B | 575 | 12.9% |
| B- | 405 | 9.1% |
| C+ | 235 | 5.3% |
| C | 314 | 7.1% |
| C- | 193 | 4.3% |
| D+ | 97 | 2.2% |
| D | 135 | 3.0% |
| D- | 111 | 2.5% |
| F | 273 | 6.1% |
| NP | 3 | 0.1% |
| S | 2 | 0.0% |
| W | 60 | 1.4% |
Based on 4,443 student grade records across 40 terms and 6 professors.
Instructors
- Silviu Velovici 1,010 students, Average GPA 3.67
- Veronica Sovero 772 students, Average GPA 2.62
- Tae-Hwy Lee 600 students, Average GPA 2.36
- Matthew Lang 358 students, Average GPA 2.75
- Saerom Lee 32 students, Average GPA 3.31
- Pedro Isaac Chavez Lopez 13 students, Average GPA 2.91