ECON 4590 - Advanced Data Analytics & Policy Evaluation
Covers advanced estimation and inference techniques for data analysis and policy evaluation. Topics will vary from year to year to introduce advanced statistical methods used in recent literature. Topics may include visualization techniques to summarize and display high dimensional data, selected topics in discrete choice models, spatial analysis, and analysis of panel data. Particularly, methods for panel data will be emphasized. This includes fixed, random, mixed, and multi-level effects models to control for or account for variation from individual characteristics. Dynamic panel data models consider lagged dependent variables as regressors.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ECON 4580, MATH 2010, and one of the following approved statistics courses: ENGR 2600, MGMT 2100, MATP 4600, PSYC 2310, BIOL 4200, or permission of instructor
When Offered: spring term annually
Cross Listed: ECON 6040
Credit Hours: 4
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