ECN/REN676 Advanced Econometrics
John P. Burkett
Spring 2004

• BayesGen.g   A Gauss program illustrating Bayesian regression with a normal prior distribution on slope parameters
• BayesIC2.g   A Gauss program illustrating Bayesian regression with inequality constraints
• BayesICCI.g   A Gauss program illustrating computation of posterior credible intervals
• beetle.m   A Matlab program illustrating ML estimation of a logistic regression. It calls a function provided by NR_logistic.m and uses data from beetle.dat. The inputs and outputs are displayed in NRlogistic.pdf
• civdp.g   A Gauss program to compute condition indexes and variance decomposition proportions
• civdp.m   A similar Matlab program
• exercises in statistics and regression analysis
• FIML-3SLS.g   A Gauss program illustrating FIML and 3SLS estimation
• forcasting project handout
• GCSR.m   A Matlab program for a simple example of Gibbs sampling described by Gelman, Carlin, Stern, and Rubin
• lag.prg   A RATS program to estimate a distributed lag using a smoothness prior and Gibbs sampling. Data come from rates.rat
• matrixalg.g   A Gauss program illustrating basic matrix operations. Data come from matrixalg.asc
• matrixalg.R   An R program illustriating basic matrix operations. Data come from matrixalg.data
• mwg.m   A Matlab program illustrating the Metropolis within Gibbs procedure
• review problems   A review of matrix algebra, probability, and statistics
• syllabus

RESOURCES FOR ECONOMETRICIANS

• Abadir and Magnus   Notation in Econometrics: A Proposal for a Standard. The recommended notation is facilitated by the LaTeX style file ee.sty
  
• American Statistical Association,   Business and Economic Statistics Section
  
• BACC   Bayesian Analysis, Computation, and Communication
  
• BUGS   Bayesian Analysis Using Gibbs Sampling
  
• Bureau of Economic Analysis
  
• DPD   Dynamic Panel Data programs for Gauss and Ox
  
• EA/Limdep   A limited version of Limdep for use with Greene's Econometric Analysis
  
• EconData   Time series assembled by Inforum at the University of Maryland
  
• EconLit   Index and abstracts covering publications in economics
  
• Econometric Society
  
• Econometrics Journal
  
• Emacs   Editor Macros, installed on URI's Grinder and Tyche systems
  
• ESS   Emacs Speaks Statistics
  
• FRED   Data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
  
• Gauss   Code and tutorials
  
• GNU Project   Free software
  
• Greene   Data, errata, and examples for Greene's Econometric Analysis
  
• ISBA   International Society for Bayesian Analysis
  
• Handbook of Econometrics   PDF files for first four volumes
  
• Journal of Applied Econometrics
  
• Leamer   Edward Leamer's classic book, Specification Searches: Ad Hoc Inference with Nonexperimental Data
  
• Mathematica   A programming language designed for mathematical analysis and graphing, installed on URI's Grinder system
  
• MathSciNet   Index and abstracts of mathematical publications
  
• MathWorld   Math encyclopedia
  
• Matlab   A commercial matrix programming language, installed in URI's Engineering Lab
  
• Mittelhammer   Supplements to Mittelhammer, Judge, and Miller's Econometric Foundations
  
• Octave   A free (GNU) matrix programming language, similar to Matlab
  
• Ox   A fast object-oriented matrix language developed by Oxford econometricians, installed on URI's Tyche cluster
  
• PlanetMath   Math encyclopedia, papers, and books under GNU Free Documentation License
  
• Quantian Knoppix   A bootable CD version of Linux, including many applications useful for econometrics
  
• RFE   Bill Goffe's Resources for Economists on the Internet
  
• R   A free (GNU) language for statistical computing, similar to S
  
• S   An object-oriented language designed to facilitate data analysis
  
• TUG   T_EX Users Group