An 1875 illustration showing that the adult children's heights tended to deviate less than the mean height of their parents. This idea suggested the concept of "regression toward the mean", giving the concept of regression its name. Linear regression is one of the topics covered in this course. (Image is in the public domain.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Victor Chernozhukov
MIT Course Number
14.382
As Taught In
Spring 2017
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
The course will cover several key models as well as identification and estimation methods used in modern econometrics. We shall being with exploring some leading models of econometrics, then seeing structures, then providing methods of identification, estimation, and inference. You will get lots of hands-on experience with using the methods on real data sets.
