Econometrics Beat: Dave Giles' Blog

Confidence Intervals - and how to interpret them correctly? Hopefully, the correct interpretation was emphasized, again and again, by y...

Here's a trap that newbies to regression analysis have been known to fall into. It's to do with comparing the numerical values of t...

The 2013 NBER-NSF Time Series Conference is being hosted by the Federal Reserve Board, in Washington D.C. next month. You can read about th...

When you're writing up your research, it's a good idea to keep in mind that a lot of the potential readers of your exciting new pap...

You may have noticed that in the past few of days some promotional links for dataZoa ™  have appeared in the lower part of the right side-b...

Recently, I've begun following the Stats Chat blog. Run by the Department of Statistics at the University of Auckland - the largest s...

I had an email today from Matt Hergott, who wrote: "I notice you place an emphasis on charts and graphs. Many analyses could be help...

The coefficient of determination (R 2 ), and its "adjusted" counterpart, really don't impress me much! I often tell students ...

The Indeed   website (available for a number of countries) is a well-known clearing house for jobs and job-seekers. Trolling for opportuniti...

Not too long ago, I had a couple of posts about "allocation models" ( here and here ). These models are systems of regression eq...