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Publication Name: Econometrics Beat

Brief description: Dave Giles is a Professor of Economics at the University of Victoria, Canada, where he specializes in Econometrics.

Publication URL: http://davegiles.blogspot.com/

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Owner Name: Professor David Giles

URL: http://web.uvic.ca/~dgiles

Joined: August 20th, 2011

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Econometrics Beat wrote a new blog post titled Forecasting: Principles and Practice

Forecasting: Principles and Practice is the title of a new book by Rob Hyndman and George Athanasopoulos. As Rob says on his webpage: "The book is dif­fer­ent from other fore­cast­ing text­books in sev­eral ways. It is free and online, mak­ing it acces­si­ble to a wide audience. It is based around the fore­cast pack­age for R. It is con­tin­u­ously updated. You don’t have to wait until the next edi­tion for errors to be removed or new meth­ods to be dis­cussed. We...
(15 hours ago)

Econometrics Beat wrote a new blog post titled It's Not Rocket Science!

In fact, it's pretty obvious that this isn't any sort of science. I'm referring to this little gem, in a post from Eric Crampton in the Offsetting Behaviour blog, back in February. And it seems that these pseuds. just won't go away - see Eric's post today. @Students in my ECON 246 course: If there were a Darwin Award for sample surveying, this would win one, hands down! © 2012, David E. Giles
(yesterday)

Econometrics Beat wrote a new blog post titled Happy Birthday, "Your Better Life Index"

One year ago, the OECD released its Your Better Life Index. The Index sought to provide comparative data relating to well-being that go beyond the traditional economic output measures such as GDP. I analyzed some of the YBLI data in a few posts last year - here, here, and here. The YBLI has been re-released (updated) today. The OECD tells us: "Some of the key takeaways from the new version of the Index include: No matter which countries people live in, they value the...
(3 days ago)