Transcription of STATISTICS FOR ECONOMISTS: A BEGINNING
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STATISTICS FOR ECONOMISTS: A BEGINNINGJohn E. FloydUniversity of TorontoJuly 2, 2010 PREFACEThe pages that follow contain the material presented in my introductoryquantitative methods in economics class at the University of Toronto. Theyare designed to be used along with any reasonable STATISTICS textbook. Themost recent textbook for the course was James T. McClave, P. George Ben-son and Terry Sincich, STATISTICS for Business and Economics, Eighth Edi-tion, Prentice Hall, 2001. The material draws upon earlier editions of thatbook as well as upon John Neter, William Wasserman and G.
are valuable because they are internally consistent and generate empirically testable propositions such as those represented by the theory of demand. If it didn’t yield testable propositions about the real world, the logical structure of utility maximization would be of little interest.
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