ECON 2350 — Statistics for Economists
4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath ADNUpath FQusually offered: fall, spring, summerBostonOnlineOnlineTraditional
Presents statistical techniques used to analyze data in order to address issues related to economics and other social sciences. Explores different types of datasets, sampling, and data collection techniques. Discusses how to obtain sociodemographic data for different subpopulations based on gender, race, class, ethnicity, and other stratifications. Uses data visualization techniques to depict economic phenomena. Offers students an opportunity to compute and interpret summary statistics, conduct confidence interval estimation, hypothesis testing, and simple regression analysis. Computer applications are an integral part of the course.
Prerequisites
- one of:
- CS 1100 (min D-) (may be taken concurrently)
- CS 2000 (min D-) (may be taken concurrently)
- CIS 200M
- CS 2100 (min D-) (may be taken concurrently)
- CIS 201M
- CS 2500 (min D-) (may be taken concurrently)
- DS 2000 (min D-) (may be taken concurrently)
- DS 2500 (min D-) (may be taken concurrently)
- MISM 2510 (min D-) (may be taken concurrently)
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer B 2023 | 1 | 32 | 35 | 91% | 3.0 |
| Fall 2023 | 4 | 118 | 124 | 95% | 1.5 |
| Spring 2024 | 3 | 89 | 95 | 94% | 2.0 |
| Summer A 2024 | 2 | 47 | 50 | 94% | 1.5 |
| Summer B 2024 | 2 | 43 | 50 | 86% | 3.5 |
| Fall 2024 | 4 | 134 | 137 | 98% | 0.8 |
| Spring 2025 | 4 | 131 | 140 | 94% | 2.3 |
| Summer A 2025 | 2 | 36 | 60 | 60% | 12.0 |
| Summer B 2025 | 2 | 47 | 50 | 94% | 1.5 |
| Fall 2025 | 2 | 43 | 65 | 66% | 11.0 |
| Spring 2026 | 2 | 45 | 65 | 69% | 10.0 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
Share of recent sections by weekday: M 17% · T 14% · W 25% · Th 18% · F 22%
Common patterns: async (43% of sections), TF (12% of sections), W (10% of sections), MWR (8% of sections), R (7% of sections), M (7% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Fall
- Gustavo Vicentini (38% of students) · reviews
- Martin Konan (33% of students) · reviews
- Timothy Tardiff (23% of students) · reviews
- Richeng Piao (6% of students) · reviews
Spring
- Xiaolin Shi (28% of students) · reviews
- Gustavo Vicentini (25% of students) · reviews
- Martin Konan (25% of students) · reviews
- Timothy Tardiff (13% of students) · reviews
Summer A
- Gustavo Vicentini (53% of students) · reviews
- Xiaolin Shi (30% of students) · reviews
- Madhavi Venkatesan (17% of students) · reviews
Summer B
- Xiaolin Shi (65% of students) · reviews
- Gustavo Vicentini (35% of students) · reviews
Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.
Unlocks
CS 4350, ECON 2560, ECON 3291, ECON 3410, ECON 3413, ECON 3416, ECON 4640, ECON 4681, ECON 4692, ECON 4970, EEMB 3465, MISM 3202, MISM 3515, MISM 3525, MISM 4501, MKTG 3401, PHTH 4202
Courses that list ECON 2350 in their prerequisites.
Links
Official catalog (ECON course descriptions) · Student reviews on RateMyHusky · All ECON courses · Plan it at numap.app