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Analysing Economic Data

A Concise Introduction

Palgrave Macmillan

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Texts in Econometrics (PTEC)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Introduction

    • Terence C. Mills
    Pages 1-4
  3. Presenting and Summarising Data

    • Terence C. Mills
    Pages 5-22
  4. Transforming Data

    • Terence C. Mills
    Pages 23-44
  5. Index Numbers

    • Terence C. Mills
    Pages 45-66
  6. Correlation

    • Terence C. Mills
    Pages 67-82
  7. Regression

    • Terence C. Mills
    Pages 83-99
  8. Basic Concepts of Probability

    • Terence C. Mills
    Pages 100-112
  9. Probability Distributions

    • Terence C. Mills
    Pages 113-122
  10. Sampling and Sampling Distributions

    • Terence C. Mills
    Pages 138-147
  11. Estimation and Inference

    • Terence C. Mills
    Pages 148-165
  12. The Classical Linear Regression Model

    • Terence C. Mills
    Pages 166-187
  13. Multiple Regression

    • Terence C. Mills
    Pages 188-203
  14. Autocorrelation

    • Terence C. Mills
    Pages 204-218
  15. Heteroskedasticity

    • Terence C. Mills
    Pages 219-230
  16. Testing for Stability in Regression Models

    • Terence C. Mills
    Pages 243-259
  17. Basic Time Series Models

    • Terence C. Mills
    Pages 260-287
  18. Back Matter

    Pages 288-297

About this book

Covers the key issues required for students wishing to understand and analyse the core empirical issues in economics. It focuses on descriptive statistics, probability concepts and basic econometric techniques and has an accompanying website that contains all the data used in the examples and provides exercises for undertaking original research.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economics, Loughborough University, UK

    Terence C. Mills

About the author

Terence Mills is Professor of Applied Statistics and Econometrics at Loughborough University, UK. He is the author of The Foundations of Modern Time Series Analysis and A Very British Affair: Six Britons and the Development of Time Series Analysis During the 20th Century, both published by Palgrave Macmillan.

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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