ECON 504: Advanced Economic Statistics


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Homework Assignments

Homework 1: 10/15.
Chapter 1: 2, 8, 12, 13, 33, 34, 38, 39, 49, 52, 53

Homework 2: 10/17.
Chapter 2: 1, 3, 8, 14*, 16, 20, 21, 23, 24, 30, 32, 39
  *Extra credit (10 points) but you have to get both parts (a) and (b).

Homework 3: Due 10/22.
Chapter 3: 5, 7, 13, 17, 23, 31a, 39, 44, 45, 46
NOTE: Some problems may require numerical calculations.

Homework 4: Due 10/29.
Chapter 4: 4, 7, 19, 21, 30, 35, 41, 42, 53*, 54, 63, 64
  *Extra credit (10 points)

Homework 5: Due 11/5.
Chapter 5: 1, 6, 16, 18*, 21, 24, 29, 30, 32, 33, 35, 43, 49
  *Extra credit (10 points)

Homework 6: Due 11/17.
Chapter 6: 1, 3, 4, 6, 10, 12, 17, 18, 21, 22, 35

Homework 7: Due 11/24.  Select 7 from the following problems:
Chapter 7: 3, 8, 19, 20, 39, 40, 44, 47, 56, 61

Homework 8: Due 12/1.  Select 7 from the following problems:
Chapter 8: 1, 2, 6, 14, 18, 25, 35a,b, 37*a,b, 38
  *Extra credit (10 points)

Homework 9: Due 12/3.  Select 7 from the following problems:
Chapter 9: 1, 4*, 11, 16, 25, 39, 45, 53
  *Extra credit (10 points)

Homework 10 (Extra Credit if desired): Due 12/12 at 1700 in DH 2098.  Select 7 from the following problems:
Chapter 10: 1, 3, 7, 15, 33, 35, 37, 47



Lecture Notes

There are currently not published lecture notes for the course this year. I am providing printed lecture notes from the course when it was taught in previous years. We will be following the text and Dr. Sickles notes provided herein.

Dr. Sickle's Course. Accessible treatment of both probability and statistics. This is a zipfile, you might want to "save-as."

Price-Volume Distribution

Relationships of various distributions.

Useful Texts

Elementary Economic Statistics.

Chapter 1 notes
Chapter 2 notes
Chapter 3 notes
Chapter 4 notes
Chapter 5 notes
Chapter 6 notes
Chapter 7 notes
Chapter 8 notes
Chapter 9 notes
Chapter 10 notes

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