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2014-2015 University Catalog 
    
2014-2015 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

AGEC 51600 - Mathematical Tools For Agricultural And Applied Economics


Credit Hours: 3.00. This course provides first year graduate students and advanced undergraduate students with the specific set of applied mathematical tools needed to support graduate coursework in microeconomics, macroeconomics, economic programming, and econometrics. The course reviews skills and concepts from a number of fields of mathematics including matrix algebra, calculus, optimization theory, and mathematical statistics. The course emphasizes specific applications to economic theory and applied problems in agricultural economics and related areas. Students should be comfortable with introductory-level calculus before entering the course. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall.