Student Solutions Manual for Essential Statistics, Regression, and Econometrics
- 1st Edition - June 27, 2011
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Gary Smith
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 1 5 7 7 4 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 1 5 7 7 5 - 0
Essential Statistics, Regression, and Econometrics provides students with a readable, deep understanding of the key statistical topics they need to understand in an econom… Read more
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Request a sales quoteEssential Statistics, Regression, and Econometrics provides students with a readable, deep understanding of the key statistical topics they need to understand in an econometrics course. It is innovative in its focus, including real data, pitfalls in data analysis, and modeling issues (including functional forms, causality, and instrumental variables). This book is unusually readable and non-intimidating, with extensive word problems that emphasize intuition and understanding. Exercises range from easy to challenging and the examples are substantial and real, to help the students remember the technique better. It offers readable exposition and exceptional exercises/examples that students can relate to. It focuses on key methods for econometrics students without including unnecessary topics. It covers data analysis not covered in other texts. It includes ideal presentation of material (topic order) for econometrics .
Chapter 1. Data, Data, Data
Chapter 2. Displaying Data
Chapter 3. Descriptive Statistics
Chapter 4. Probability
Chapter 5. Sampling
Chapter 6. Estimation
Chapter 7. Hypothesis Testing
Chapter 8. Simple Regression
Chapter 9. The Art of Regression Analysis
Chapter 10. Multiple Regression
Chapter 11. Modeling (optional)
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 27, 2011
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780124157743
- eBook ISBN: 9780124157750
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Gary Smith
Gary Smith received his B.S. in Mathematics from Harvey Mudd College and his PhD in Economics from Yale University. He was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Yale University for seven years. He is currently the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College. He has won two teaching awards and has written (or co-authored) seventy-five academic papers, eight college textbooks, and two trade books (most recently, Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie With Statistics, Overlook/Duckworth, 2014). His research has been featured in various media including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Motley Fool, NewsWeek and BusinessWeek. For more information visit www.garysmithn.com.
Affiliations and expertise
Fletcher Jones Professor, Department of Economics, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, USA