Economics 140. September 26th to October 3rd

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The goals for these two weeks are:

• Explaining Lessons 1 (Introduction to Econometrics) and 2 (Simple linear regression: foundations and graphical analysis)
• Doing some practical work with GRETL and the dataset simulated data

Warning about the practical work: Many of you have laptops. If you are willing to bring your own computer, we can do some practical work in the classroom.

Review carefully the ECN 140 website. Download the following material:

• Introduction to Econometrics
• Simple linear regression: graphical analysis
• Homework set #1

As well as the dataset: simulated data