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SUMMARY:Center for Statistical Training & Consulting Workshop: Intermediate Topics in Regression
DESCRIPTION:
 This course will consider topics in regression 
 analysis aimed at people wanting to use regression 
 for empirical work in a fairly sophisticated 
 way. The focus is on regression with cross-sectional 
 data. Topics include a brief review 
 of the assumptions used to conclude that 
 ordinary least squares (OLS) has desirable 
 statistical properties; how one confronts problems 
 of multicollinearity; estimating and interpreting 
 models with flexible functional forms 
 (such as interaction terms); selection of 
 regressors and proxy variables; using and interpreting 
 linear regression with discrete outcomes; 
 making inference robust to heteroskedasticity 
 and cluster correlation; the pros and 
 cons of weighted least squares versus OLS; 
 linear regression and the estimation of average 
 treatment effects.\n
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 Examples will be shown 
 using the software package Stata. The course 
 assumes an understanding of multiple regression 
 at the level of Chapters1 through 5 in 
 Introductory Econometrics:A Modern Approach, 
 4e, by Jeffrey M. Wooldridge.\n
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 Price: Free to Graduate Students, Faculty and Research 
 Staff\n
 Sponsor: public\n
 Contact name: Dr. Brian Silver\n
 Contact phone: 517-353-9288\n
 Contact email: bsilver@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://www.cstat.msu.edu/services/workshops/workshop.aspx?id=1620\n
LOCATION:106 Farrall Agricultural Engineering Hall
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