Buec 333: Statistical analysis of economic data

Pascal Lavergne pascal_lavergne@sfu.ca

Office WMX 2652

Office hours Tuesday 11H30 -12H20 (or by appointment)

Lectures : Tuesday 14:30 - 16:20 AQ 3149 permanent change from K 9500

                Thursday 14.30 – 15.30 K 9500

 

 

Midterm grade distribution

Evaluation

The course and tutorial evaluations will take place on Tuesday November 24 at 2.30

 

TAs

Mohammad Zanganeh mohammad_zanganeh@sfu.ca

D201 D203 D205 D207

Office hours: Wednesdays 12:30-14:30 WMC 2657 (permanent change)

 

Greg Lockwood gjl3@sfu.ca

D202 D204

Office hours: Wednesdays 10:30-11:30 WMC 1613

 

Tutorial D206 has been cancelled

 

No tutorials on the first week of class

 

LAB WMC 2506

TA : Gary Gai wga3@sfu.ca

 

Lab hours : 8.30 to 10.30 from Monday to Friday

 

No lab on the first week of class

Second week: Lab opens on Wednesday

 

Syllabus

Click here

 

Eviews

Here is a short Eviews tutorial

You can find another one on the textbook’s web site

Link to textbook’s web site  useful for data sets, web links, …

Tutorial Exercises

Here (updated)

Week of November 10: correction of midterm  AK

Assignments

Assignment 1 Data set AK

Assignment 2 AK

Assignment 3 AK

Assignment 4 Data AK

Assignment 5 Data AK

Assignment 6  Data AK

 

Schedule

 

 

 

 

 

Readings:

Class #

Date/Day

Topic

Ch. #

1

September

8

Tuesday

Organization  / Regression

Syllabus / 1 and 16.1 and 2

2

September

10

Thursday

Regression

 

3

September

15

Tuesday

OLS

2

4

September

17

Thursday

OLS

 

5

September

22

Tuesday

OLS / Classical Model

4 and 16.3

6

September

24

Thursday

Classical Model

 

7

September

29

Tuesday

Classical Model / Testing

5 and 16.4

8

October

1

Thursday

Testing

 

9

October

6

Tuesday

Testing

 

10

October

8

Thursday

Testing

 

11

October

13

Tuesday

Testing / Choosing Variables

6

12

October

15

Thursday

Choosing Variables

 

13

October

20

Tuesday

Functional Form

7

14

October

22

Thursday

Functional Form

 

15

October

27

Tuesday

Functional Form

 

16

October

29

Thursday

Review

 

17

November

3

Tuesday

Midterm Exam

1 to 7 and 16

18

November

5

Thursday

No class

 

19

November

10

Tuesday

Multicollinearity

8

20

November

12

Thursday

Heteroscedasticity

10

21

November

17

Tuesday

Heteroscedasticity (lecture ends at 3.20)

 

 

November

19

Thursday

Serial Correlation

9

22

November

24

Tuesday

Serial Correlation

 

23

November

26

Thursday

Serial Correlation / Dummy Dependent Variable

13

24

December

1

Tuesday

Dummy Dependent Variable

 

25

December

3

Thursday

Review

 

 

December

17

Thursday

Final exam

All

 

Slides

Regression Background

Ordinary Least-Squares

Read Chapter 3 for yourself (There will be no lecture)

The Classical Model

Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Testing

Choosing the Independent Variables

Choosing the functional form (updated)

Review

Multicollinearity

Heteroscedascticity

Serial Correlation

Dummy Dependent Variable

Review

 

 

Exams examples

 

Midterm (covered Chapters 1 to 5 and Chapter 16)

Solution of midterm

Final (cumulative)

Solution of final