Index of Course Materials for

Eco 320 Economic Statistics (No. 2230), Spring 2005

Meets MWF 11:30–12:25 in HU 020

Instructor:  Prof. Thad Mirer       Assistant:  Yangyi Shan
Office:  BA 110B Office:  BA 129F
Office Hours:  M&W 1:00-2:30 Office Hours:  T&Th 12:30-2:00
Phone:  442-4755 Phone:  437-3756
E-mail:  mirer@albany.edu E-mail:  ys7476@albany.edu

COURSE AND EXAM GRADES – listed by last four digits of Student ID

General Course Materials:

Syllabus – class schedule revised March 4
Corrections to text – a PDF file, needs Acrobat Reader (it prints better than it looks)
Reading – Tanzi – (also distributed in class) a PDF file, needs Acrobat Reader

Homework Assignments:

Assignment 1 – due Wednesday, February 9
Assignment 2 – due Wednesday, February 16
Assignment 3 – due Wednesday, February 23
Review Problems for Chaps 9 & 10 – not for grading or submission
Assignment 4 – due Wednesday, March 30
Assignment 5 – due Wednesday, April 6 *** delayed until Friday, April 8 ***
Review Problems for Chap. 7 – not for grading or submission
Assignment 6 – due April 27.  Two parts: Assignment Sheet and Excel Data Set

Review Problems for Chaps 11 & 12 – not for grading or submission

Data Sets:

Cross-Section Data Set – Text Table 2.2
     Excel format (*.xls) – for Excel version 5.0/95 and higher
     Text format (*.txt) – 101 rows (variable names are in row 1)

Time-Series Data Set – Text Table 2.3
     Excel format (*.xls) – for Excel version 5.0/95 and higher
     Text format (*.txt) – 26 rows (variable names are in row 1)

Excel Tutorials:

http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/excel/ – U. South Dakota
http://einstein.cs.uri.edu/tutorials/csc101/pc/excel97/excel.html – U. Rhode Island
http://lteu.canterbury.ac.uk/training/onlinetutorials/excel/index.asp – Canterbury Christ Church University College


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