econ-240a econometrics section website - first half, fall 2007

instructor: Michael Jansson [Email | Webpage]
gsi: Owen Ozier | Webpage]
official website: http://www.econ.berkeley.edu/~mjansson/Courses/ECON240A_FALL07/ECON240A.html
gsi fixed office hour: Every Thursday, 2-3PM, Evans 608-1
gsi variable office hour: Tuesday Oct 16th, 3:30PM-4:30PM, Evans 608-1
sections: Fridays: either 12-2PM 2 Evans, or 2-4PM, 6 Evans
review q&a session: Tuesday Oct 16th, 7-9PM, 2326 Tolman
"midterm" Wednesday Oct 17th, 10AM-11:30AM (80min), 247 Cory Hall
PS3 SOLUTIONS: Dowload Here (200k PDF)
PS4 SOLUTIONS: Dowload Here (160k PDF)

section schedule

Section 1 - Fri Aug 31 Instruction begins (review CB 1.1-1.6)
Section 2 - Fri Sep 07 Set sequences/limits; PDFs/PMFs; Transformations of random variables (CB 1.5-2.1)
Section 3 - Fri Sep 14 Transformation, Expectation, Skewness, Normal/Mixed (CB 2.1-3.4)
Section 4 - Fri Sep 21 Transformation, Poisson, Independence (CB 2.1, 3.2, 4.2)
Section 5 - Fri Sep 28 Conditional Variance, Method of Moments, MSE and Best predictors (CB 4.4, 7.2-7.3)
Section 6 - Fri Oct 05 Sufficient Statistics, Completeness, Cramér-Rao Lower Bound (CB 6.2, 7.3)
Section 7 - Fri Oct 12 Hypothesis Testing, Selected review points (CB 6.2, 7.3, 8.3)

past final exams

Spring 2002 Exam | Fall 2002 Exam | Fall 2003 Exam | 2004: Not Jansson | Fall 2005 Exam | Fall 2006 Exam
Spring 2002 Solutions | Fall 2002 Solutions | Fall 2003 Solutions | Fall 2005 Solutions | Fall 2006 Solutions

for fun:

The Monty Hall Problem Strikes Back:
Chen, M. Keith. "Rationalization and Cognitive Dissonance: Do Choices Affect or Reflect Preferences?" (2008)
Keith Chen / Monty Hall in the NY Times, April 8, 2008