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International Journal of Academic Research in Economics and Management Sciences

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ISSN: 2226-3624

The Impact of Attitudes of Students in Economics Department towards Mathematics and Statistic Courses on the Success of Econometrics Course

Bülent Yildiz, Murat Oduncuo?lu

http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJAREMS/v5-i4/2457

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In this study, the impact of attitudes of students attending mathematics, statistics and econometrics courses towards mathematics on attitudes towards statistics and econometrics course successes and the impact of attitudes towards statistics on econometrics course successes were analyzed by using Structural Equation Model, with data collected from a sample of 147 students studying Economics in Gaziantep University. Analyses provided findings that mathematics anxiety and interest in mathematics significantly and positively affect statistics anxiety and interest in statistics. It is also founded that statistics anxiety and mathematics anxiety significantly and negatively affected the econometrics score of students.

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(Yildiz & Oduncuo?lu, 2016)
Yildiz, B., & Oduncuo?lu, M. (2016). The Impact of Attitudes of Students in Economics Department towards Mathematics and Statistic Courses on the Success of Econometrics Course. International Journal of Academic Research in Economics and Management Sciences, 5(4), 151–161.