ECONOMICS  College of Business and Public Administration
 Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa 50311

Boal's Econ 107: Problem Sets

What's here: These problem sets are in PDF format.

Part 1: Introduction and statistics review

  1. Subscripts and Summation Symbol
  2. Fitting Lines to Data
  3. Random Variables
  4. Moments
  5. Important Distributions
  6. Samples and Estimators
  7. Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Tests

Part 2: Two-Variable Regression

  1. Algebraic Properties
  2. Gauss-Markov Properties
  3. Normal Error Terms
  4. Practical Issues

Part 3: Multiple Regression with Cross-Section Data

  1. Algebraic Properties
  2. Gauss-Markov Properties and Normal Error Terms.
  3. More Tests and Functional Forms
  4. Heteroskedasticity

Part 4: Multiple Regression with Time-Series Data

  1. Regression with Strictly Exogenous Errors
  2. Functional Forms, Trends, and Seasonality
  3. Models of Serial Correlation
  4. Testing and Correcting for Serial Correlation
  5. Models of Highly Persistent Series
  6. Testing for Unit Roots
  7. Forecasting

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