Econ 6400: Seminar: Econometrics

Week 10:

• Some SAS handouts have been posted.
• Final Exam: Thursday March 17  6:30-9:50pm
• Turn in your Term Paper that day if you can not already done so.

Week 9:

• Homework 7 has been posted.
• Midterm was returned and the grades have been posted on Blackboard.

Week 8:

• Midterm was not returned.

Week 7:

• Homework 6 has been posted.
• Please bring your paper by office hours or a brake to discuss the appropriateness of the research paper you have chosen to work on.
• The grading of the midterm is not complete, it will be returned next week, not tonight.  Sorry about the delay.

Week 6:

• The midterm will be given today starting at 7:30.
• Homework 4 is due in class this week.
• Homework 5 has been posted.
• Here is the handout for the Project.

Week 5:

• Next week is the midterm.  You may used 4 pages of notes, 8 sides.

Week 4:

• Homework 3 is due today in class.
• Homework 4 has been posted.

Week 3:

• Homework 2 is due today in class.
• Homework 3 has been posted.
• The Midterm will be Thursday February 10.
• For the class you should print out the gretl handouts to use when we go to the computer lab.  See the Handouts link and print handouts 1-9.

Week 2:

• Homework 1 is due today in class.
• Homework 2 has been posted.

Week 1:

• This week we will cover the ideas of random variables, expectation, variance, the normal distribution, binomial distribution.
• Homework 1 has been posted.

Week 0:

• The book for the course is Introductory Econometrics with Application, 5th ed, by Ramu Ramanathan.
• The author's website, Ramu Ramanathan
• The book's website, Introductory Econometrics with Applications, 5th ed
• We will be using three software packages in this class.  For demonstration purposes and for the homework we will use gretl.  For further calculation we will use Minitab and SAS.