May 23, 2024  
2022-2023 Graduate Catalog 
    
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ECON 8610 - Advanced Data Analysis for Economics

3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
This course emphasizes the use and implementation of modern data analysis to examine and analyze data sets frequently encountered in business and economics. Topics include a review of linear regression models and hypothesis testing. Advanced topics include ridge regressions, shrinkage methods, lasso regressions, principal components, partial least squares, polynomial regressions, and tree based methods, including random forests. Students apply these techniques to economic applications where supervised and unsupervised machine learning may be appropriate. Preq: ECON 8600 .



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