ECON340 - Economic Research Methods - California State University, Fullerton - Dr Toche

GENERAL

This course is intended for students of the California State University at Fullerton. The aim of this course is to introduce students to research methods relevant to economics. Material for the course will be uploaded here as it becomes available. Sensitive material will be available on the course canvas page (https://csufullerton.instructure.com/courses).

SCHEDULE

Available on Canvas

LECTURES

1. Introduction to Statistics

[Handout] [Slides] [Problems] [Lab]

2. Probability - Basic Concepts & Rules

[Handout] [Slides] [Problems] [Lab]

3. Data - Frequency Tables & Histograms

[Handout] [Slides] [Problems] [Lab]

4. Data - Centrality & Dispersion

[Handout] [Slides] [Problems] [Lab]

5. Data - Asymmetry & Quantiles

[Handout] [Slides] [Problems] [Lab]

6. Probability - Discrete Distributions

[Handout] [Slides] [Problems] [Lab]

7. Probability - Continuous Distributions

[Handout] [Slides] [Problems] [Lab]

8. Methods - Sampling & Inference

[Handout] [Slides] [Problems] [Lab]

9. Estimation - Confidence Intervals

[Handout] [Slides] [Problems] [Lab]

10. Estimation - Hypothesis Testing

[Handout] [Slides] [Problems] [Lab]

11. Estimation - Statistical Correlation

[Handout] [Slides] [Problem s] [Lab]

12. Estimation - Simple Regression

[Handout] [Slides] [Problem s]

13. Estimation - Multiple Regression

[Handout] [Slides] [Lab] [Lab]

++ Summary & Cheatsheets

PROBABILITY TABLES

SHINY APPS

[Normal Distribution]

[Uniform Distribution]

[Binomial Distribution]

[Student-t Distribution]

[Chi-Squared Distribution]

[Fisher-F Distribution]

[Triangular Distribution]

[Hypergeometric Distribution]

[Poisson Distribution]

[Exponential Distribution]

VIDEOS
[Repository]

TEXTBOOK

Main Textbook

Douglas A. Lind, William G Marchal, Samuel A. Wathen, Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics, The McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Operations and Decision Sciences, 17th edition (2017), 978-1259666360. My lectures roughly follow this textbook.

Other Textbook

William G. Zikmund, Barry J. Babin, Jon C. Carr, Mitch Griffin, Business Research Methods, South-Western, 9th edition (2013), 978-1439080672. This covers the "survey design" topic in detail. My lectures do not use this textbook.

EXTRA LECTURES

Introduction to R

[Get Started] [Get Data]

Methods - Data Collection & Survey Design

[Handout] [Slides] [Problems]

RESOURCES - DOCUMENTS

[HELP]

ONLINE COMPILERS

http://rextester.com

https://repl.it

https://tio.run

https://rdrr.io/snippets/