SciencesPo / Quantitative Tools

Spring 2017

"Remember, the other team is counting on Big Data insights based on previous games. So, kick the ball with your other foot."

Syllabus

#	Dates	Subject	Corresponding Lecture
1	26/01/2017	Introduction	Lecture 1
2	02/02/2017	Percentages and applications	Lecture 2
3	09/02/2017	Charts and graphs	Lecture 4
4	23/02/2017	Indexes	Lecture 3
5	02/03/2017	Qualitative variables and Core values	Lecture 5
6	09/03/2017	1st Midterm	Lecture 6
7	16/03/2017	Values of dispersions	Lecture 7
8	23/03/2017	Values of concentration	Lecture 7
9	30/03/2017	Linear adjustment	Lecture 8 & 9
10	06/04/2017	Correlation	Lecture 8 & 9
11	13/04/2017	2nd Midterm	Lecture 10
12	20/04/2017	Simple & compound interest	Lecture 10

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Final December 2015 - Exercice 5

Results' computations are done with frequencies divided by 2 (there are 600 employees in the firm instead of 1200) and salaries are divided by 10. Nevertheless, results are the same (by a factor of 10)
Question c): Mode is 25,000$ (and not 1500 as stated). Note that here we admit the center of modal class as the mode. The precise formula would give 24,918.03$