Posts Tagged ‘econometrics’

Econometrics is…

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

Econometrics is the use of mathematics and computing to analyze economic questions. Someone who does econometrics is called an “econometrician.” Yup.

Econometricians use models (like linear regression) to achieve a number of goals. These include:

  • generating economic data
  • answering a particular question
  • testing a theory
  • discovering an economic relationship