Introductory Statistics and Econometrics Schedule

Instructor: Simon Halliday, PhD.
Time: Tues & Thurs 9 to 10:20pm
Venue: Seelye 308
Semester: Spring 2018
Course code: ECO220
Email/hangouts: shalliday+eco220@smith.edu Why is this my email address? Check here
Syllabus

Week 12

Tuesday 17 April

Continue with simple regression
Discussion of midterms, overall grades and report
Start on multiple regression (if we get the chance)
Multiple regression slides here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GnvBJHYbZr317mYOwIFucqLseWCx0xs7pPbZQUOS1CY/edit?usp=sharing

Wednesday 18 April

Make sure you have a list of variables you wish to start analyzing.
Use the keep command in Stata to cut down your variables to those you want and start to investigate those variables.
Think about using twoway to make bar and scatter plots of your data.
- See here: https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/stata/modules/graph8/twoway-scatter-combine/
Some intuitions about regress in STATA
- Annotated regression output: https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/stata/output/regression-analysis-2/
- See here: https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/stata/faq/how-can-i-use-estout-to-make-regression-tables-that-look-like-those-in-journal-articles/
- And here for tables that export to .rtf which you can paste into Google Docs or MSWord: https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/sscc/pubs/stata_tables.htm
- And here for comprehensive discussions of esttab: http://repec.sowi.unibe.ch/stata/estout/esttab.html
Get an idea of the structure of your report with the report guidelines.

Thursday 19 April

Continue with Muliple Regression
Multiple Regression Worksheet: https://moodle.smith.edu/mod/resource/view.php?id=316066
Do file for the worksheet using the nids.dta file on Moodle: https://moodle.smith.edu/mod/resource/view.php?id=316070

Week 11

Tuesday 10 April

Simple Regression
Simple Regression slides here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Xix9NtSp6Qwh5FKq09cdpA92xH3U1t1Ue2QHzEDklU4/edit?usp=sharing

Wednesday 11 April

Time on Card & Krueger
Time for you to start work on chosen data - see here for data assignment: http://simondhalliday.com/eco220/reportdata.html

Thursday

Continue with Simple Regression

Week 10

Tuesday 3 April

Review & Type I and Type II errors

Wednesday 4 April

Time for some question about alcohol exercise
Time for questions re: midterm
Start on lab 6: pdf and docx
Data available here: Card and Krueger

Thursday 5 April

Midterm 2

Week 9

Tuesday 27 March

Slides for Hypothesis Testing available here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wuYeWVnTPxNkxmeVliZGMXfcEYmi7d-I_VXccyeGHnk/edit#slide=id.g35e2dc0897_0_96
Spreadsheet on immigrant mothers: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pBjjJ0YTlRGlTwC8HqWrZIDukTIlm7XPfhMU839t7TE/edit?usp=sharing
Spreadsheet on poker players and t-tests/Z-scores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11MYii7B5aMrL9iPWmVNGtCzgOn3foT_pgvu-AlzGRis/edit?usp=sharing

Weds 28 March

Move to complete Alcohol Exercise

Thurs 29 March

Continue with Hypothesis Testing Slides
Discuss data options ## Week 8 ### Tuesday 20 March
Continue with the estimation slides available here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mBscwBm32jffJ-4EosbcS3ofV2dz9vBNaI0tKVftn94/edit?usp=sharing

Wednesday 21 March

Continue with the alcohol exercise from 7 March (look below)
Hand in Lab 3 on Moodle

Thursday 22 March

Finish estimation and t-distribution
Download the t-distribution here: https://moodle.smith.edu/mod/resource/view.php?id=309895

Week 7

Tuesday 6 March

Slides available here: goo.gl/vUXfzq
Groups available here: groups

Weds 7 March

Over the next two labs we will complete the Alcohol Exercise docx pdf
You will hand in initial exploratory answers for Lab 3 using the Lab 3 Template docx, pdf
Here is a zipped file of the folder structure you will need to complete this exercise (to save you time): folder-structure.
You will create a sign in (with your Smith email address) and download the data set from the ICPSR site: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/. You can sign in with Google+ credentials (e.g. your Smith email), Facebook and others.

Thurs 8 March

Hand in Exam Reflection
Continue with Sampling or begin Estimation
See estimation slides here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mBscwBm32jffJ-4EosbcS3ofV2dz9vBNaI0tKVftn94/edit?usp=sharing. (the short url broke for reasons I don’t understand)

Week 6

Tuesday 02/27

Finish Chapter 4 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_XR6K0BROWGqcRwwihrCV9r2WUh2gprFX8xu415Hi3M/edit
Some revision questions
Refer to the Z-statistic table here: https://moodle.smith.edu/mod/resource/view.php?id=305484
Notebook from in-class examples is here: https://moodle.smith.edu/mod/resource/view.php?id=305557

Wednesday

The formula sheet for Midterm 1 is available here: https://moodle.smith.edu/mod/resource/view.php?id=305865
Lab 2 is available here in docx and pdf.

Week 5

We continued the probability slides from the previous week.

Wednesday’s classes were cancelled because of Rally Day.

Week 4

Tuesday

Continuing the slides from last week.
Also, continuing the two-dice roll spreadsheet below.
Here’s the probability handout: https://moodle.smith.edu/mod/resource/view.php?id=302422.

Wednesday 02/14

Download lab 1 here: moodle.smith.edu/mod/resource/view.php?id=302768
Download the data for lab 1 here moodle.smith.edu/mod/resource/view.php?id=302731

Thursday 02/15

Continue the slides from Tuesday
Use the data from Wednesday’s class in Google Sheets here: https://goo.gl/EC5Qhy.
Tasks for the data here: https://moodle.smith.edu/mod/resource/view.php?id=303028

Week 3

Tuesday

Slides are here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pqH_tju3pt-af25NQwN6y407CHtg3_qOt_eO4ZSSQAY/edit?usp=sharing
Life expectancy & income data are here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LYZG9ccsQV4l2SMUmGfDNsnwlNOCg5YlP6BVd2t3iYI/edit?usp=sharing

Weds

Classes Cancelled - Snow Day

Thursday

Slides are here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_XR6K0BROWGqcRwwihrCV9r2WUh2gprFX8xu415Hi3M/edit?usp=sharing
First spreadsheet for Dice Exercise: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ev61-U_rjIugyiqY9C_VAYik46HMldN5GIaGPXC0PWg/edit?usp=sharing
Second Spreadsheet for Dice exercise https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xAu4wi3yg15NtdSUb398a4an9Y0JvR-SDyMl6VM-FNc/edit?usp=sharing
Third Spreadsheet for Dice simulation: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FXNQvveHgeaAgZsw4tcc_zLR7Am5MvxEAe2u9fzMXNo/edit?usp=sharing

Week 2

Tuesday

Continue slides from Week 1 (see below)
Sign up for Piazza here if you didn’t get the email link piazza.com/smith/spring2018/eco220
See the data for the Hamburger problem in class here: goo.gl/ji3vAv.
See the data from your heights here: goo.gl/HAo7TZ
Problem set 1 is available here: moodle.smith.edu/mod/resource/view.php?id=297729
The ENHRUM data spreadsheet for PS 1 is available here: goo.gl/pA4K2Z

Wednesday

Lab 0 is available here: goo.gl/cAyQrL
Lab 0’s data is available here: goo.gl/TmQ4Hj

Thursday

We continue to work with the spreadsheet of heights, focusing on mean, median, mode, variance and standard deviation.
You can get the handout on summary statistics from class here goo.gl/b4CXV8
A quick video tutorial on copy/pasting a formula into a column is available here: youtu.be/GIZx16yotYM

Week 1

Thursday 25 January

Slides are here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10wSxD7MqVtsjQgbSad3Hn2ZdIIfD7r0Bb640UlNgAFc/edit?usp=sharing.
The survey is here: https://goo.gl/forms/PrHySNu5iuSbpxJv1
The photo album (collaborative) is here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/OlEbqw6kSdp5jpzx1