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The Postgraduate Course is based on open Source Software Gretl which has a range of materials provided, including Gretl itself
While the course uses Gretl the code in the link below does all the examples in Python and R (R-studio). The python code is in the form of Jupyter notebooks and the R in R notebooks. The python code can also be accessed using Google colab using - top right - "Pages", or the link below.
The reading for this course will be restricted to books. The main text is "Introductory Econometrics a Modern Appproach" by Jeffery Wooldridge (Link below). The text by Lee Adkins will also be useful (link below)
The two most important data sets to download are the Wooldridge Data set (since this will be the reference text for the course), but also the POE data set which is used in the book by Adkins, below. Note that the scripts are also available from the page below.
A link to the reference to the Wooldridge text used in the course is below. However, earlier editions will suffice. With a bit of searching they can be found for free.
Econometrics Preparation, if you are so inclined!
A) Review Basic Statistics
This one video by Justin Zeltzer is long, but it covers most of the key concepts about hypothesis testing from an undergraduate course in statistics!
For a series of other videos and notes you can select from
B) Read Chapter 1 of Wooldridge .
A link to the reference to the Wooldridge text used in the course is below. However, earlier editions will suffice. With a bit of searching they can be found for free. Introductory Econometrics a Modern Approach, by Jeffrey Wooldridge
C) Watch the Youtube video's below by Ben Lambert (in order of left to right)
C) Follow the following video on Gretl
Go to the page (above) and follow the links to Gretl. https://gretl.sourceforge.net/#man
i) Download it, and install it. (its free and safe!).
ii) Download the Wooldridge data set from https://gretl.sourceforge.net/gretl_data.html
iii) Using [file] > [sample file] > look for the affairs data below, and double click
If you can't install the Wooldridge data the affairs data is at: https://github.com/KelvinBalcombe/Econometrics/blob/main/affairs.gdt
download it thenopen using [file]> [user file]
iv) Follow the video below (if you can do this you are all set up for the course)
D) Read this Article.
This would be a good one to read. It is avaiable on JSTOR and other places. We don't expect you to understand the more technical bits but if you skip over those you should get the important points.
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