Econometrics Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley 		ECONOMICS 240A: INTRODUCTION
TO ECONOMETRICS/STATISTICS

Spring 2000
Instructor: Professor Daniel McFadden
Instructor: Professor James Powell

 
Monday & Wednesday, 12-2
247 Cory

Instructor: D. McFadden
Office: 655 Evans Hall

Instructor: J. Powell
Office: 669 Evans Hall

Assistant: Y. Lee
Assistant: M. Roberts

Economics Department
549 Evans Hall

Econometrics Laboratory

ELSA: Econometrics Laboratory Software Archive

ELSA's FTPable Data Sets

EML's Data Resources

Free TSP 4.4 Software & Manuals
Ghostview PS Viewer

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Last modified: 5/3/2000
Reading List

Lecture Notes - Statistical Tools for Economists

  • Chapter 0 - Cover and Table of Contents [PDF or PS.Z]
  • Chapter 1 - Economics Analysis and Econometrics [PDF or PS.Z]
  • Chapter 2 - Analysis and Linear Algebra in a Nutshell [PDF or PS.Z]
  • Chapter 3 - A Review of Probability Theory [PDF or PS.Z]
  • Chapter 4 - Limit Theorems in Statistics [PDF or PS.Z]
  • Chapter 5 - Experiments, Sampling, Statistical Decisions [PDF or PS.Z]
  • Chapter 6 - Estimation [PDF or PS.Z]
  • Chapter 7 - Hypothesis Testing [PDF or PS.Z]

    Section Handouts (2nd half)

  • Administrative Issues and Introduction to Regression Geometry, 3/16/00
  • Section 2, Multiple Regression,3/26/00
  • Section 3, Short and Long Regression (Ch. 17) and the Multivariate Normal Distribution (Ch. 18), 3/26/00
  • Section 4, Goldberger Chs. 19-22, 4/21/00

    Problem Sets

  • Problem Set 1
  • Problem Set 2
  • Ascii data for Problem Set 2 (SHIFT+CLICK to download; single click to view)
  • Problem Set 3
  • Problem Set 4
  • Problem Set 5
  • Extra Sample Problems for Midterm