ECO232 Computer Applications II

Course Name

Code

Semester

Theory
(hours/week)

Application
(hours/week)

Laboratory
(hours/week)

National
Credit

ECTS

 

ECO232

Spring

3

 

3

3

3

Perquisites’

--

Course language

English

Course type

Required

Mode of Delivery

 

Learning and teaching strategies

Lecture, Drill and Practice, Homework

Instructor (s)

Nilgün Çokça

Course objective

The aim of this course is to teach to use different type of statistic, economic and econometrics applications.

Learning outcomes

At the end of the lesson, the students will ;

  • solve statistical and economic problems on applications.

Course Content

  • R Consol

  • Graphs

  • Basic Graphs

  • Trellis

  • Scatter plots

  • Statistics

  • T-test

  • Non-parametric tests

  • Exact tests

  • Multiple Linear Regression

  • Diagnostics

  • Anova

  • Diagnostics

  • Multiple Comparisons

  • Frequency and Cross tabulations

  • Power Analysis

  • Econometric Views 

  • EViews basics and objects

  • Mathematical expressions in EViews

  • Areas in EViews main window

  • An Overview of Regression Analysis

  • Ordinary Least Squares

  • Learning To Use Regression Analysis

  • The Classical Model

  • Basic Statistics and Hypothesis Testing

  • Specification: Choosing the Independent Variables

  • Dummy Dependent Variable Techniques

References

Lecturer Notes Volume 2, Nilgün Çokça, 2012

Exploring Microsoft Office Excel 2010 Comprehensive (Custom Phit: The Pearson Custom Program for Cis) by Robert Grauer, Mary Anne Poatsy, Keith Mulbery and Lynn Hogan (Nov 22, 2010)

Computing Skills for Economists, Guy Judge

Using EViews for Principles of Econometrics by William E. Griffiths, R. Carter Hill and Guay C. Lim (Sep 27, 2011)

The R Book, Michael J. Crawley, Wiley, 2007

Practical Regression and Anova using R, Julian J. Faraway, December 2000

Using EViews for Principles of Econometrics by William E. Griffiths, R. Carter Hill and Guay C. Lim (Sep 27, 2011)

The Practice of Econometrics A Computer Handbook Using MicroTSP, Paul E. Greenberg

Using Excel for Undergraduate Econometrics, R. Carter Hill-William E.Griffiths-George G. Judge