Econometrics, History of

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 8-11

  Morgan, Mary S ^a   Qin, Duo ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Econometrics; Estimation; History of statistics; Hypothesis testing; Identification; Measurement; Simultaneity; Structural model; Vector autoregressions

Indexed keywords

EID: 85002275380     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.71077-4     Document Type: Chapter

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