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Course Objectives

This is an applied course - applications of some fundamental statistics tools for economic analysis will be covered. The main objective of the course is to show how agents use economics data and provide meaningful economic analysis of this data. The data include: (A) low and high frequency economics data, (B) survey data and (C) intelligence data. In addition to fundamental descriptive and graphical analyses, seasonal adjustment, calendar effects and outlier detection tools will be covered. In the recitation hours, the applications will be handled with J Demetra+ and Excel.