Department of Economics

ECON840: Applied Econometrics I

Lecturer in charge

Professor Lance Fisher

Availability

E2 - Evening; Offered in the second half-year

Unit Outline

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Description

This unit introduces statistical techniques used by economists in the analysis of economic and financial data. Topics covered include descriptive statistics, probability distributions, sampling and sampling distributions, point estimation and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, regression analysis, elementary discussions of multicollinearity, autocorrelation, and heteroscedasticity.