QM1 Quantitative Methods 1

Organizational

• Goals
  • speak R
  • speak math
• email: jana.hlavinova@wu.ac.at
• Materials on Canvas
  • slides
  • R-Scripts provided
  • solutions, lecture videos
  • ask questions about R
• online materials
  • DataCamp
  • StackOverflow
  • YouTube
• books
  • A First Course in Statistical Programming with R
  • Essential Mathematics for Economic Analysis
• Slides $\ne$ Book
• Group Work will be important
  • Always use group ID in communications
  • groups only withing PUE Group

Grading

• At least 5 mandatory PUEs to be attended. otherwise negative grade.
• home-assignments (10 points) (quizzes 25 of 35 questions for max points)
• mid-term exam (20 points)
• case studies (3) (20 points) (15 group + 5 own)
• final exam (50 points)

Content

• Functions
• Transformations of Graphs
• New Functions from Old
• Common Properties of Functions
• Derivatives
  • 3Blue1Brown - The other way to visualize derivatives
• Integrals
• Functions with many Variables
• Optimization
• Matrix Algebra

General

• Viktor from Marswalk