Econ 300 – Quantitative Methods in Economics

 

  • STATA Preparation

How to Run Stata Remotely from the Wesleyan Servers (Windows)

How to Run Stata Remotely from the Wesleyan Servers (Mac)URL

Stata youtube channel

 

  • Journal Searching

Library Resources for ECON300 by Wesleyan University

Economic Resources at the Library by Wesleyan University

Citation Style for Papers and Theses in Economics

 

  • Data Collection

Federal Reserve Economic Data

ICPSR

Basic Sources of United States Statistics: General Statistical Sources

IHS Global Insight

 

  • Graphs

Two way graphs in STATA

 

  • Common commands in STATA: summary statistics, data management, graphs, regression

https://people.ucsc.edu/~aspearot/Econ113W13%20/basic_tutorial_stata.pdf

 

  • Simple Regression Interpretation

http://blog.minitab.com/blog/adventures-in-statistics-2/how-to-interpret-regression-analysis-results-p-values-and-coefficients

 

  • Model Evaluation

After we run regression for our models, we can use model evaluation techniques to decide the best model.

Postestimation (P drive -> econ300 -> post_est -> Post_est_quicknotes.docx