784 Quantitative Methods
Content
- Preparation and analysis of data with SPSS
- From research question to hypotheses
- Hypotheses testing
- Regression modelling
- Factor analysis
- Benchmarking analysis for efficiency and effectiveness
- Indicators as the ground for goals setting and performance measurement
- Financial calculus
- Economic evaluation of investment projects
- Optimisation in public sector
- Matrix calculus and linear program in administration
- Data envelopment analysis
Objectives and competences
Student:
- uses statistical and other quantitative method’s to solve problems within problem field of public sector economics
- uses suitable methods that enable analyses of the quantitative phenomena in public sector
- understands and is able to assess adequacy and efficiency of functioning of public sector
- forecasts and analyses different effects of policies, projects and measures.
Student is qualified
- to evaluate, analyse and forecast the effects of policies, projects and measures,
- to judge reasonableness of the gained results and suitability of the used methods,
- to design quantitative models based on the described occurrences and given data defining model parameters that on the transparency way represent and interpret meaning of calculus results,
- to use of quantitative methods on the different fields of public sector, searching of the understanding and usage of the implementation of new methods that are suitable for the quantitative analysis of the problems in the public sector,
- to discuss critically the phenomena in consideration and interprets them in the light of the real life situations.