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Economics Dept.
Miller College of Business
Ball State Univ.
ECON 424/524
INTRODUCTORY ECONOMETRICS
Dr. Tung Liu
Course Description
Econometrics deals with the application of statistical methods to economics. You will need to have one semester of statistics before you can enroll in this class. At the beginning of this course, we will briefly review elementary probability and statistics. This course emphasizes the multiple linear regressions and the estimation procedures that improve upon the ordinary least squares estimation. Economic and financial data will be used for student's empirical studies. The students are required to learn a statistical package for econometric empirical works.

Prerequisite: ECON 221.
 
Actuarial Science Majors
This course is elective to actuarial science majors. This course meets the requirement of the Society of Actuaries' Validation by Educational Experience (VEE)–Applied Statistics credit.
 
Contents
Part I. Introduction (Chapter 1)
Part II. Review of Probability and Statistics (Chapter 16)
Part III. The Two-Variable Regression (Chapters 2, 4, 5)
Part IV. The Multiple Linear Regression (Chapters 2, 4, 5)
Part V. Using the Multiple Regression Model (Chapters 7, 12)
Part VI. Checking Assumptions for the Linear Regression Model (Chapters 6, 8-10)
Part VII. Advanced Time Series Topics (Chapters 12, 15)
Part VIII. Writing an Empirical Project (Chapters 3, 11)
 
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