Analysing Economic Data
A Concise Introduction
Published on 1. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
XII, 297 pages
978-1-349-48656-4 (ISBN)
Description
Covers the key issues required for students wishing to understand and analyse the core empirical issues in economics. It focuses on descriptive statistics, probability concepts and basic econometric techniques and has an accompanying website that contains all the data used in the examples and provides exercises for undertaking original research.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
XII, 297 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
395 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-48656-4 (9781349486564)
DOI
10.1057/9781137401908
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12/2013
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Person
Terence Mills is Professor of Applied Statistics and Econometrics at Loughborough University, UK. He is the author of The Foundations of Modern Time Series Analysis and A Very British Affair: Six Britons and the Development of Time Series Analysis During the 20th Century, both published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Content
1. Introduction 2. Presenting and Summarising Data 3. Transforming Data 4. Index Numbers 5. Correlation 6. Regression 7. Basic Concepts of Probability 8. Probability Distributions 9. Continuous Random Variables and Probability Density Functions 10. Sampling and Sampling Distributions 11. Estimation and Inference 12. The Classical Regression Model 13. Multiple Regression 14. Autocorrelation 15. Heteroskedasticity 16. Simultaneity, Instrumental Variables and Non-Normal Errors 17. Testing for Stability in Regression Models 18. Basic Time Series Models