79210 - Lab Class on Economic and Business Data

Academic Year 2026/2027

  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Statistics, Economics and Business (cod. 6811)

Course contents

1. Basic statistics for data analysis in R and Introduction to R programming

2. Nonlinear models in regressors and marginal effects, Power transformations and difference in difference regression. Applications in R

3. Microeconometrics and Applications in R:

  • discrete choice models
  • count data regressions
  • limited dependent variable models
  • hurdle or two-part models
  • SUR models
  • spatial probit model

4. Panel Data models. Applications in R

5. MC simulations and Resampling methods. Applications in R

Readings/Bibliography

Cameron and Trivedi (2005), Microeconometrics: Methods and Applications. Cambridge.

Teaching methods

Lectures are carried out considering both theoretical/methodological and empirical aspects in economics, with the help of the statistical software R.

The used economic datasets are all available in R or provided by the Professor.

Assessment methods

Written exam

Teaching tools

PC; video projector.

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Office hours

See the website of Anna Gloria Billè