Michael Lawlor
Department of Economics, Wake
Forest University
Spring 2008
Basic resources
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Syllabus ( file) | |
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Website for the gretl
econometrics program (local Windows download here). |
Tufte's Visual Display of Quantitative Information
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Tufte's website | |
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Reader's guide with questions | |
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Image gallery (has several of the plates from Tufte's book) |
Readings and assignments by unit
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Introduction | |
| What are data? | ||
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Philosophy of science and data analysis | |
| Karl Popper on science | ||
| Guide to Popper, with questions | ||
| Hume on the problem of induction | ||
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Health-care spending |
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| Health spending unit description | ||
| Basic gretl skills | ||
| Health data article | ||
| Simple Regression and Gretl | ||
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Analysis of variance | |
| Analysis of variance homework | ||
| Basic statistical formulae | ||
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Macroeconomic time-series | |
| Extracts from Keynes's General Theory | ||
| Macroeconomic time-series: the consumption function | ||
| Consumption function assignment | ||
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Classroom Powerpoint Presentations | |
| Popper On Science | ||
| 201 PPT day 1 | ||
| Powerpoint Presentation on Regression Analysis | ||
| It's the Prices Stupid | ||
| Variance and Hypothesis Testing | ||
| Consumption Function – I | ||
| Cosumption Function -II |
Data sources
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Cross-country health data from the OECD | |
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The Economic Report of the President | |
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The Federal Reserve Board |
Other documents 
Pioneering time-series graph by William Playfair, 1786