Re: st: Elementary texts

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 10:30 PM 5/19/2007, Scott Cunningham wrote:
> Is Christopher Baum's book appropriate for that class?  What is the
> ideal course for Baum's book, anyway?  I'm teaching masters level
> econometrics in the spring 2008 for the first time and have yet to
> pick a text, and was wondering whether that one might suit.
Here is the description of Kit's book, and a link to the preface is included:

http://www.stata.com/bookstore/imeus.html

I find William Greene's Econometrics text pretty hard to read, but it 
is #1 in the field, isn't it?  He does provide example datasets in 
several formats, including Stata.  I suspect it is worth looking at 
even if you don't wind up using it.


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