Econometrics Beat: Dave Giles' Blog

"Count" data occur frequently in economics. These are simply data where the observations are integer-valued - usually 0, 1, 2, ....

Every now and then a student will ask me why the formula for the density of a Normal random variable includes the constant, π, or more co...

This brief post is a "shout out" for   Irene Botusaru  ( Economics , Simon Fraser University) who gave a great seminar in our de...

I like to think of The Econometric Game as the World Championship of Econometrics. There have been 17 annual Econometric Games to dat...

About six months ago I wrote a post titled, " Readers' Forum Page ". Part of my explanation for the creation of the page...

In a post in today's Inside Higher Ed , Scott Jaschik discusses the latest annual jobs report from the American Economic Association. ...

If X is correlated with Y, and Y is correlated with Z, does it follow that X and Z are correlated? No, not necessarily. That is, the r...

The correlation measure that students typically first encounter is actually  Pearson's product-moment correlation coefficient . This co...

The Gretl econometrics package  is a great resource that I've blogged about from time to time. It's free to all users, but of a ve...

Wishing all readers a very special holiday season! Agiakloglou, C., and C. Agiropoulos , 2016. The balance between size and power in te...