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040331 KU Empirical Methods in Decision Sciences (MA) (2022S)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work

service email address: opim.bda@univie.ac.at
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Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 33 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 02.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock (Kickoff Class)
  • Wednesday 09.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 16.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 23.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 30.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 06.04. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
    Seminarraum 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 27.04. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 04.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 11.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 18.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 25.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
    Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 01.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 08.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 15.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 22.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
  • Wednesday 29.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
    Seminarraum 13 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

In this course students are introduced to decision science relevant empirical methods. The major focus point of the course is the design and implementation of computerized interactive and static experiments. Students are introduced to the theoretical knowledge about various experimental designs, practical implementation of the designed experiment using Python language based platform and analysis of the results using Python & R based tools. Principal interest in computer programming can be helpful for this course. The course is taught in English.

Assessment and permitted materials

Written exam concerning theoretical design knowledge
oTree assignments
Data analysis assignments

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Students need a laptop for oTree and data analysis assignments.
All partial achievements (exam & assignments) must be positive in order to have a positive grade from the course.
0-50 points => 5
51-63 points => 4
64-75 points => 3
76-87 points => 2
88-100 points => 1

Examination topics

Course content

Reading list

Douglas, C. M. (2019). Design analysis of Experiments. John Wiley & Sons
Donohue, K., Katok, E., & Leider, S. (Eds.). (2018). The handbook of behavioral operations. John Wiley & Sons.
Guttag, J. V. (2013). Introduction to computation and programming using Python. Mit Press.
For oTree: https://otree.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
For Python: https://www.python.org
For JupyterLab: https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
For R: https://www.r-project.org

Association in the course directory

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