Econometrics Beat: Dave Giles' Blog

If you're interested in how U.S. graduate economics programs rank when it comes to econometrics, check here . © 2012, David E. Gile...

Testing if a sample of data comes form a specific distribution is a central problem in statistics. This sort of "goodness-of-fit"...

I loved this post by Eric Crampton on the Offsetting Behaviour blog. Time to call in the Regression Police, methinks! © 2012, David E...

Last March I had a  post  that I titled "Modelling Flowers on the Wall". It was to do with the Great Victoria Flower Count that t...

It was the Fall of 1983. I was on Study Leave from Monash University in Australia, and I was spending about 6 months in the Economics Depar...

I guess there must be a few econometricians who were "leap year babies" - that is, born on 29 February. I'm not one of them, ...

Suppose that you've estimated an econometric model and you want to test the residuals for serial independence, or perhaps for homosked...

Now, this is really scary!!! (Even for nostalgia buffs.) © 2012, David E. Giles

Should I present my results in a table or in a graph? Both have their place, of course. A recent post , titled "Some Notes on Maki...

My colleague, Malcolm Rutherford , has recently published a really interesting paper on the history of statistical and economic education ...