Temple University Department of Economics

Date	Topic from Greene	Notes		Practice Problems	Hwk for 2008
9/3	Discussion: Correlation and causation				Discussion Questions, Temp and GDP data, Wine and Crime data
9/10	Linear Algebra Appendix A	Matrix Algebra Problems in Mathview Problems in MathCAD		This semester we will be doing problems from Greene's text after the first few weeks. The homework links shown below are for your information only.
9/17	Probability and Inference Appendix B & C	Descriptive Statistics and Probability Random Variables and Distributions Relations Among Distributions Sampling Distributions and Estimation Conditional Quantiles Linear algebra and probability Hypothesis Testing, Small Sample and Large Sample See this great online virtual laboratory probability and statistics site.		Hwk 1: Algebra Key Algebra Answer Key What I had in mind.	Paper Title is due today
9/24	Probability and Inference Appendix B & C			Probability and RV's: Part I Answer Key
10/1	Asymptotic Theory Appendix D	Asymptotic Theory Big Oh - Little Oh		Probability and RV's: Part II Answer Key Hwk 2: Probability Key for 2 and Hwk 3: Sampling Key for 3	The following items are due today: 1. Abstract 2. Annotated Bibliography
10/8	Classical Linear Regression Chapter 2 - 3	Multiple Regression		Inference Key Hwk 4: Estimators Key
10/15	Properties of the LS Estimator Chapter 4	Miller L1, L2, L3 Multiple Regression: Gauss-Markov and GLS		Hwk 5: Hypothesis Testing	Homework 1 KEY
10/22	Mid-term Exam: Get a copy of a past exam here and the answer Key		Fall 2008 Answer Key
10/29	Review Exam Large Sample Properties, Chap 5			Multiple Regression
11/5	Inference and Prediction, Chap 6 Maximum Likelihood Chap 17	Hypothesis Testing:t-tests, F-tests, large sample tests Miller L9, L16, L17 LR, Wald and LM from the American Statistician			Outline, click here for an excellent example of an outline.
11/12	Functional Form and Structural Change, Chap 7 Specification Analysis and Model Selection, Chap 8	Specification Problems: Omitted variables, functional form, dummies and splines & non-nested hypotheses Functional Form with MathView Splines and Dummies with MathView		Hypothesis Testing: Bread and Meat. Get the data Get the Key
11/19	Violations of Assumptions Chapters 10 - 12	Missing Data, Heteroscedasticity Autocorrelation Multicollinearity MillerL8		Hypothesis Testing Answer Key part 1 and part 2	Modeling Cost Functions and the data and data legend KEY
11/26	Thanksgiving Break, no class.
12/3	Violations of Assumptions			Heteroscedasticity Key
12/10	Estimation Frameworks, Chap 16 Method of Moments, Chapter 18 Meth of Moments, MathCAD	Wooldridge, Journal of Economic Perspectives		Autocorrelation Answer Key
12/17	Final Exam in our usual location and time. Answer Key			Method of Moments Hwk Paper is due TODAY, no exceptions! Click here for a grading rubric.