Econometrics Beat: Dave Giles' Blog

Tim Johnson posted a helpful comment on my recent post about Newton. This led tme to Tim's interesting blog called " Magic, Maths...

Sir Isaac Newton had a "day job" - Master of the Royal Mint, from 1699 until his death in 1727.

An independent, well-funded, and well-staffed central statistical agency is a prerequisite for rational public policy-making. Statistics Ca...

We all know that the Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLE) is justified primarily on the basis of its desirable (large sample) asymptotic prop...

I found this post   by Michael Blastland on The Guardian 's DataBlog  to be refreshing. It's good to see a collaborative internat...

I've aired some of my views on Economics seminars in the past - and especially how they compare with those in some other disciplines. F...

What the title of this post is supposed to mean is: "Estimating a simple aggregate consumption function using Bayesian regression analy...

If, like me, you're still an R novice, you'll no doubt find this post   on Pairach Piboonrungroj's blog extremely helpful. Amo...

It's that time of year again - classes are over and I'm grading exams and projects. This term I was teaching an introductory Econom...

In today's issue of  The Daily , Statistics Canada has released a terrific  study   titled "The Role of Natural Resources in Real ...