Logically organized and accessible, this updated Fifth Edition of Gujarati′s classic text provides students with an overview of the basics of econometric theory from ordinal logistic regression to time series.
Gujarati's Basic Econometrics provides an elementary but comprehensive introduction to econometrics without resorting to matrix algebra, calculus, or statistics beyond the elementary level. Because of the way the book is organized, it may be used at a variety of levels of rigor. For example, if matrix algebra is used, theoretical exercises may be omitted. A CD of data sets is provided with the text.
This book is a guide for students who are studying econometrics as a course in their programme, There are 5 modules or units in this study material. The first unit explicate from the origin of econometrics, meaning, definition, need econometrics as a separate discipline, the scope of econometrics, Methodology of Econometrics, Reasons for introduction of stochastic error term, the difference between economic and econometric model and limitation. The second unit depicts about the simple linear regression in the aspects of its assumptions, derivations of its estimation of parameter value, properties and its technical note, applications of simple linear regression with examples. The third unit is the extension of simple linear regression as multiple regression with basic input with examples for applying in reality. The fourth unit briefly explains the violations of assumptions such as multicollinearity, homesecdasticity, autocorrelation, and specification errors in the aspects of causes, consequences, way of diagnostic the presence or absence and the remedies to rectify the issues. The fifth module or unit introduces about the qualitative response models with dummies, distributed lag models with importance’s of lag, analysis of variance, analysis of covariance, comparison of analysis of variance and analysis of covariance. The last unit attempted to explain about the free open source software Gretel to apply in need of finding solution to an economic phenomenon. The Glossary is attached in the annexure for a better understanding the terminology of econometrics which will support to face multiple choice questions of any competitive examinations in national and state level. In Simple words, this book is a guide to get the knowledge of econometrics and apply the same into reality wherever necessary.
This economical text is intended for use as a universal supplement to introductory econometrics courses. This edition contains two new chapters on economic forecasting. Extensive online supplements include teaching PowerPoints, solutions to test questions/problems, new instructor questions, and software programs with data to download.
Thoroughly classroom tested, this introductory text covers all the statistical topics that constitute a foundation for basic econometrics, with concise explanations of technical material.
The second edition of this bestselling textbook retains its unique learning-by-doing approach to econometrics. Rather than relying on complex theoretical discussions and complicated mathematics, this book explains econometrics from a practical point of view by walking the student through real-life examples, step by step. Damodar Gujarati's clear, concise, writing style guides students from model formulation, to estimation and hypothesis-testing, through to post-estimation diagnostics. The basic statistics needed to follow the book are covered in an appendix, making the book a flexible and self-contained learning resource. The textbook is ideal for undergraduate students in economics, business, marketing, finance, operations research and related disciplines. It is also intended for students in MBA programs across the social sciences, and for researchers in business, government and research organizations who require econometrics. New to this Edition: - Two brand new chapters on Quantile Regression Modeling and Multivariate Regression Models. - Two further additional chapters on hierarchical linear regression models and bootstrapping are available on the book's website - New extended examples accompanied by real-life data - New student exercises at the end of each chapter