Prerequisite(s): ECON 101 and ECON 102; and ECON 203 for Economics majors or INFO 240 for others. Restriction(s): Major within School of Business. The objective of the course is to provide a comprehensive introduction to quantitative techniques that are useful to analyze economic and financial data. The goal is to enable students to competently apply the methods and to assess the empirical validity of the assumptions to conduct inference. The course will discuss concepts from probability and statistics, estimation and inference in the multiple linear regression model, and functional forms. Several applications will be discussed in class to demonstrate the relevance of these techniques to economics. “RStudio” or similar software packages will be integrated into all topics. Equivalent course ECON 420 effective through Summer 2020.