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By: David A. Belsley , Erricos KontoghiorgheseBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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Handbook of Computational Econometrics examines the state of the art of computational econometrics and provides exemplary studies dealing with computational issues arising from a wide spectrum of econometric fields including such topics as bootstrapping, the evaluation of econometric software, and algorithms for control, optimization, and estimation. Each topic is fully introduced before proceeding to a more in-depth examination of the relevant methodologies and valuable illustrations.
This book: Provides self-contained treatments of issues in computational econometrics with illustrations and invaluable bibliographies. Brings together contributions from leading researchers. Develops the techniques needed to carry out computational econometrics. Features network studies, non-parametric estimation, optimization techniques, Bayesian estimation and inference, testing methods, time-series analysis, linear and nonlinear methods, VAR analysis, bootstrapping developments, signal extraction, software history and evaluation.
This book will appeal to econometricians, financial statisticians, econometric researchers and students of econometrics at both graduate and advanced undergraduate levels.
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| Title of eBook: Handbook of Computational Econometrics | |
| Release Date: 08-18-2009 | |
| Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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Handbook of Computational Econometrics
Chapter One
Econometric softwareCharles G. Renfro
1.1 Introduction
The production and use of econometric software began at the University of Cambridge in the early 1950s as a consequence of the availability there of the first operative stored-program electronic computer, the EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator). This machine became available for academic research starting in or about 1951. Among the first to use it were members of the Department of Applied Economics (DAE), some of whom had been invited to Cambridge by the Director, Richard Stone. From the beginning, they employed the EDSAC to produce work that remains well regarded. They also appear to have been the first to describe in print the workaday process of using a stored-program computer. There, Lucy Slater, working with Michael Farrell, wrote the first distinguishable econometric software package, a regression program. However, these economists were not alone in their early adoption of emerging computing technologies, for previously, in 1947, at one of the first gatherings of computer designers, the Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery, Wassily Leontief had presented some of his then current work on inter-industry relationships to provide an example of a challenging computational problem. He used the existing electromechanical 'Mark I' Automatic Sequence Control Calculator at Harvard, which, although not actually a stored-program electronic computer, can nonetheless be described as the first 'automatic digital computer'. The Mark I also represents IBM's start in a business it was later to dominate.
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