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- Introduces the free software R, using its cutting edge interface, R Studio, aimed at economists
- Starts from simpler topics such as supply and demand and elasticity and goes on to more advanced ones such as simulations of fishing and the Solow growth model
- Provides information on how to visualize data, which is an important practice stressed by statisticians who have developed and use R
- Conveys the essentials of graphing, simulating and computing, to build skills with numerical mathematics and data analysis
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Economics (BRIEFSECONOMICS)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), Delhi, India
Vikram Dayal
About the author
Vikram Dayal is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. He is the author of the book titled The Environment in Economics and Development: Pluralist Extensions of Core Economic Models, published in the SpringerBriefs in Economics series in 2014. In 2009 he co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Environmental Economics in India with Professor Kanchan Chopra. He has been incorporating the use of software in teaching quantitative economics—his open access notes on Simulating to understand mathematics for economics with Excel and R are downloadable at http(colon)(double back slash)textbookrevolution(dot)org. His research on a range of environmental and developmental issues from outdoor and indoor air pollution in Goa, India to tigers and Prosopis juliflora in Ranthambhore National Park has been published in a variety of journals. He visited the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis in Bloomington, Indiana as a SANDEE (South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics) Partha Dasgupta Fellow in 2011. He studied economics in India and the USA and did his doctoral degree from the University of Delhi.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: An Introduction to R for Quantitative Economics
Book Subtitle: Graphing, Simulating and Computing
Authors: Vikram Dayal
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2340-5
Publisher: Springer New Delhi
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-81-322-2339-9Published: 30 March 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-81-322-2340-5Published: 17 March 2015
Series ISSN: 2191-5504
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5512
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 109
Number of Illustrations: 70 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Econometrics, Statistics for Business, Management, Economics, Finance, Insurance, Simulation and Modeling, Statistics and Computing/Statistics Programs, Artificial Intelligence