Econometrics: Final exam June 28th, 2013

In June 28th 2013 we did the 2nd final exam of Econometrics. Here you can download:

• The blinded exam, with the right answers in the last page
• The unblinded exam [Not yet uploaded, I will do it ASAP], with some handwritten remarks explaining the solution to each question

The following table summarizes the results of this exam, as well as the calculation of each final grade:

If you think that your grade could be wrong, please send me a message using this link.

Aprender. Conducción y otras materias...

Acabo de leer un texto bastante ingenioso y pintoresco, que expresa espléndidamente cómo me siento a veces después de 27 años enseñando Matemáticas, Estadística y Econometría a nivel universitario. Si os apetece leerlo, conviene echarle una pizca de humor y quizá de autocrítica:

http://cifrasyteclas.com/2013/02/06/los-profesores-no-podemos-conducir-por-ti/

Puesto que el contenido de este post no es académico voy a abrirlo a los comentarios, críticas, autocríticas y sugerencias de mejora que queráis hacer.

Econometrics: 1st Final, end of the revision process

There seems to be no incidences to solve, so I will close the "Actas" next Friday, June 14th.

I remind you, once again, that the second final exam will be next June 28th (12:00h) at Aulario, class #305. To help preparing it, we will do a group tutorship in June 26th (11:00h) at Pabellón Prefabricado, 1st floor.

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Econometrics: Final exam June 6th, 2013

I have just registered your grades in UCMnet. I had to type them again so please check them to assure that they are correct.

The second final exam will be next June 28th (12:00h) at Aulario, class #305. To help preparing it, we will do a group tutorship in June 26th (11:00h) at Pabellón Prefabricado, 1st floor.

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Econometrics: Final exam June 6th, 2013

In June 6th 2013 we did the final exam of Econometrics. Here you can download:

• The blinded exam, with the right answers in the last page
• The unblinded exam, with some handwritten remarks explaining the solution to each question

The final grades, including the results of the final exam, are the following:

The final grade has been computed as follows: Final exam (60%), Partial exams (30%), Active participation (10%)

If you think that your grade could be wrong, please send me a message using this link.

Econometrics: 2nd partial exam

In May, 22 we did the 2nd partial exam. You can download an unblinded version by clicking here. We solved it in the next class (May, 23).

After discussing the exam in class, I found some ambiguities in the second question. Accordingly, I graded the exams again considering that ANY answer to this question (including "blank") was correct. The new grades are the following:

If you think that your grade may be wrong, please send me a message by clicking here.

The remaining extra activities to prepare the final exams are:

• June, 3th, 12:00h. Extra group tutorship to answer last-minute doubts before the first final exam (June 6th, at 9:00 AM)
• June, 25th, 12:00h. Extra group tutorship to answer last-minute doubts before the second final exam (June 28th, at 12:00 AM)

All these activities will take place in Pabellón Prefabricado, Floor 1, North Wing.

Econometrics: weeks 13-16

In weeks 9-12 we:

• Finished Lesson 4.2 Collinearity
• Did a partial exam (Wednesday April 10th) including all the course content up to and including discrete regressors
• Explained Lessons 5.1 and 5.2, Heteroscedastic and non-normal dat and Influential observations and outliers, as well as the corresponding practical cases
• Started the explanation of Lesson 6.1: Univariate models

In the next weeks we will:

• Finish lessons 6.1 (Univariate models) and 6.2 (Regression with time series data)
• Do the 2nd final exam: May, 22th 2013
• Do some extra activities to prepare the final exam:
• May 17th, 10:30. A 2 hr extra class, to answer doubts and do exercises from previous exams. We will focus in Lessons 1-4.
• May 20th, 11:00. A 2 hr extra class, to answer doubts and do exercises from previous exams. We will focus in Lessons 5-6.
• June, 3th, 12:00h. Extra group tutorship to answer last-minute doubts before the final exam (June 6th, at 9:00 AM)
• All these activities will take place in Pabellón Prefabricado, Floor 1, North Wing.

Graded personal homework

I will not ask for new homework, as we will concentrate in preparing the final exam. However, I will cont

Econometrics: Exam #1, April, 10th 2012

The results of the exam that we did today are the following:

The grades are in the standard 0-10 metric. Those in red and bold were rectified after finding a transcription error.

By clicking here you can download an unblinded version of the exam.

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I also take this opportunity to warn the student UNIDENTIFIED that his name does not appear in the list of this group.

Econometrics: weeks 9-12 (April 8th to 28th)

In weeks 6-8 we:

• Finished working with the CEO compensation and Wooldridge's "Beauty" datasets
• Explained Lesson 4.1 Discrete and semi-continuous regressors. Polynomial terms
• Started Lesson 4.2 Collinearity
• Solved the Exercise sheet #2

The goals for weeks 9-12 are:

• Finishing Lesson 4.2 Collinearity
• Doing a partial exam (final date: Wednesday April 10th) including all the course content up to and including discrete regressors
• Explaining Lessons 5.1 and 5.2, Heteroscedastic and non-normal dat and Influential observations and outliers, as well as the corresponding practical cases

Econometrics: weeks 6-8 (March 11th to April 7th)

In weeks 3-5 we:

• Explained Lessons 3.1 (Estimation) and 3.2 (Inference)
• Reviewed the practical materials: Exercise sheet #1, Weight vs. age for a sample of children and CEO compensation dataset (Wooldridge's ceosal2 dataset)

The goals for weeks 6-8 are:

• Finish working with the CEO compensation dataset by fitting a log-linear model. We will see how this helps when modeling nonnormal data
• Explaining Lesson 4.1 Discrete and semi-continuous regressors. Polynomial terms
• Modeling Wooldridge's "Beauty" dataset
• Solving part of the Exercise sheet #2 and Many least squares calculations done (almost) by hand 
• Doing a partial exam (final date: April 10th)

Econometrics: weeks 3-5 (February 18th to March 10th)

In weeks 1-2 we:

• Explained Lessons 1-2
• Provided an introduction to Gretl, using mainly the dataset: Simulated data 

The goals for weeks 3-5 are:

• Explaining Lessons 3.1 (Estimation) and 3.2 (Inference)
• Reviewing the practical materials Many least squares calculations done (almost) by hand and Weight vs. age for a sample of children
• We will do some applied work with the CEO compensation dataset (Wooldridge's ceosal2 dataset)

Econometrics: weeks 1-2 (February 4th to 17th)

The general idea of this blog is described (in spanish) in Acerca de este Blog.

The goals for these two weeks are:

• Explaining Lessons 1 (Introduction to Econometrics) and 2 (Simple linear regression: graphical analysis)
• Doing some practical work with GRETL and the dataset simulated data

Warning about the practical work: Many of you have laptops. If you are willing to bring your own computer, we can do some practical work in the classroom.