Syllabus
Fall 2016. Section 01, MW 9:25 - 10:40 PDF
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Class Notes
These notes were prepared to be part of the material presented in class. The goal is to have short and straight to the point examples and exercises to help you master the material. To avoid having long documents they may not be self contained and are not a substitute for your class notes.
| Main File | Related Dataset | On the News | |
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| Chapter 1 | Random variables, sampling and estimation | Excel File 1 Excel File 2 |
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| Chapter 2 | Simple linear regression | ||
| Computer Handout 1 | Simple linear regression in Excel | Beauty.txt Beauty.xls |
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| Chapter 3 | Properties and hypothesis testing | ||
| Chapter 4 | Multiple regression analysis | ||
| Computer Handout 2 | Gretl | Crime.txt Crime.xls Crime.gdt |
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| Chapter 5 | Transformation of variables and interactions | Wage.txt Wage.xls Wage.gdt |
Related NYT article |
| Chapter 6 | Analysis with qualitative information: Dummy variables | Gpa.txt Gpa.xls Gpa.gdt |
Related NYT article |
| Chapter 7 | Specification of regression variables | Wage2.txt Wage2.xls Wage2.gdt |
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| Chapter 8 | Heteroscedasticity | Saving.txt Saving.xls Saving.gdt |
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| Chapter 9 | Binary choice models | Mroz.txt Mroz.xls Mroz.gdt |
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| Chapter 10 | Time series | Phillips.txt Phillips.xls Phillips.gdt |
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| All chapters |
Assignments
All assignments are due at the beginning of the lecture.
| Main File | Related Dataset | Due date | Solutions | |
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| Assignment 1 | Smoke.txt Smoke.xls |
Wednesday, October 12 | ||
| Draft Term Paper/Poster Idea | Wednesday, October 19 | |||
| Poster | Wednesday, November 2 | Examples | ||
| Assignment 2 | YouTube.xls YouTube.gdt |
Wednesday, November 30 | ||
| Term Paper | Data Sets | Wednesday, December 14 | Sample Paper (pdf) Sample Paper (word) |
Mock Exams
| Main PDF File | |
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| Mock Exam 1 | |
| Mock Exam 2 |
Poster Groups
These are the poster groups. You should have also received an e-mail confirmation with the e-mails of the people in your group.
| Group Members | Topic | |
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| Group 1 | Jose Alanis, Sylvester Cobarrubias, Ariana De Leon, Alvaro Flores, Audel Gonzalez, Joseph Marquez, Karlos Martinez | College GPA |
| Group 2 | Crystal Cruz, Giovanna Delacruz, Qian Yun Huang, Ismael Rodriguez, Raul Trevino, Erika Zuloaga | |
| Group 3 | Jorge Cardenas, Jessica Elizondo, Valeria Fasci Lozano, Patricia Salinas Trevino, Miguel Santos, Anelis Villarreal | Titanic |
| Group 4 | Yameli Cruz, Paulina Lopez, Maria Lopez-Arias, Clara Pena, Alan Rosales Alanis, Thalia Solis, Ting Yoder, Jason Zuniga | Beauty and the Labor Market |
| Group 5 | Linnette Avalos, Karen Calvillo, Cesar Fuentes, Jordan Gutierrez, Anabelly Mata, Guadalupe Rodriguez, Klarissa Rodriguez | Housing Price and Crime |
| Group 10 | Jorge Calderon, Christopher Gallegos, Alicia Gomez, Isaac Reyes, Selene Salinas Elizondo, Abel Sanchez, Jose Tolentino, Saul Ventura | |
| Group 11 | Silvestre Cavazos, Charles Escobar, Damian Espinoza, Karen Espronceda, Jacob Flores, Jose Galvan | |
| Group 12 | Ruben Galvan, Gilbert Garza, Eric Gonzalez, Alonso Gutierrez, Astrid Gutierrez, Hector Loya, Erik Martinez | |
| Group 13 | Luis Hernandez, Juan Mendoza, Lizette Pena, Carlos Rosell, Sebastian Wong-Martinez, Stephanie Zepeda | Crime 1986 |
Potential Data for Posters and Papers
These are some examples of data sets and potential models for the posters and papers.
| Name | Data File | Related Paper | |
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| Dataset 1 | South Texas Region Employment | Excel File | Dataset 2 | South Texas Industry Employment | Excel File | Dataset 3 | South Texas Population | Excel File | Dataset 4 | Economic Growth | Excel File | Working Paper Published | Dataset 5 | Airline Pricing | Excel File | Working Paper Published | Dataset 6 | Beauty and the Labor Market | Excel File | Working Paper Published | Dataset 7 | Housing Prices and Crime | Excel File | Published | Dataset 8 | College GPA | Excel File | Dataset 9 | Sleep | Excel File | Working Paper Published | Dataset 10 | Airline's Demand | Excel File | Working Paper Published | Dataset 11 | Government Expenditures (Cross country) | Excel File | Working Paper Published | Dataset 12 | Government Expenditures (U.S.) | Excel File | Working Paper Published | Dataset 13 | Housing Prices Boston | Excel File | Dataset 14 | 401k | Excel File |
Additional Datasets
This is the link to the datasets from the textbook “Introductory Econometrics” by Jeffrey Wooldridge (various editions)
Evidence Against the Null
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