Topic 2: Statistics

Material covered in class

The references in this section are to Bruce Hansen’s textbook Probability and Statistics for Economists. These notes are built on Hansen’s book and lecture notes that I inherited from Len Goff who previously taught ECON 8070 at UGA.

  1. Sampling

    • Reading: 6.1-6.15

  2. Law of Large Numbers

    • Reading: 7.1-7.11

  3. Central Limit Theorem

    • Reading: 8.1-8.14

  4. Inference

    • Reading: 13.1-13.4, 13.5-13.7, 13.9, 13.14-13.15, 13.18, 14.1-14.3, 14.5-14.6, 14.8-14.9

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