Mar 29, 2024  
Rensselaer Catalog 2021-2022 
    
Rensselaer Catalog 2021-2022 [Archived Catalog]

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ECON 6040 - Advanced Data Analytics and 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: ECON 6030 or permission of instructor.

When Offered: Spring term annually.



Credit Hours: 3



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