Introduction
Econometrics is powerful, elegant, and widely used. Many departments of economics, politics, psychology, and sociology require students to take a course in regression analysis or econometrics. So do many business, law, and medical schools. These courses are traditionally preceded by an introductory statistics course that adheres to the fire hose pedagogy: bombard the students with information and hope they do not drown. Encyclopedic statistics courses are a mile wide and an inch deep, and many students remember little after the final exam. This textbook focuses on what students really need to know and remember.
Essential Statistics, Regression, and Econometrics is written for an introductory statistics course that helps students ...
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