Essential Econometric Techniques

<p>Now in its third edition <i>Essential Econometric Techniques: A Guide to Concepts and Applications </i>is a concise student-friendly textbook which provides an introductory grounding in econometrics with an emphasis on the proper application and interpretation of results.</p><p>Drawing on the author’s extensive teaching experience this book offers intuitive explanations of concepts such as heteroskedasticity and serial correlation and provides step-by-step overviews of each key topic. </p><p>This new edition contains more applications brings in new material including a dedicated chapter on panel data techniques and moves the theoretical proofs to appendices. After Chapter 7 students will be able to design and conduct rudimentary econometric research. The next chapters cover multicollinearity heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation followed by techniques for time-series analysis and panel data.</p><p>Excel data sets for the end-of-chapter problems are available as a digital supplement. A solutions manual is also available for instructors as well as PowerPoint slides for each chapter.</p><p>Essential Econometric Techniques shows students how economic hypotheses can be questioned and tested using real-world data and is the ideal supplementary text for all introductory econometrics courses. </p>