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course is taught by Dr. Alex Liu with his
special approach.
His office is in SSPB 1264 with office hours
from 5 to 6pm on
every Tuesday and Thursday. The office telephone number is
949-824-5794. The best way to reach him is through
email at alex@ResearchMethods.org
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The TAs
are:
zWinston E. Chi
wchi@uci.edu (Eddy)
zLA A5 Tu 5-5:50pm & A9 Thu 5-5:50pm
Office hour: Wednesdays, 1-3pm, in the SST 120 computer lab.
zKeith Finlay
kfinlay@uci.edu (Keith)
zLA A1 M 9-9:50am & A6 W 9-9:50am
Office
Hour: Monday 10-11 in SST 307
Wednesday 10-11 in SST 307
or by appointment (via email kfinlay@uci.edu).
zIris Lien
wlien@uci.edu
(Iris)
zLA A2 M 10-10:50am & A3 M 11-11:50am
Office
Hour: Tuesday, 2:20 to 3:20 pm OR by appointment in SST
305
zWilliam Troost
wtroost@uci.edu (Bill)
zLA A4 M 12-12:50 & A7 W 10-10:50 & A8 11-11:50
Office
Hours are from 9 to10 Wed. OR by appointment in SST 307
Meeting
Time and Places are: 3:30 - 4:50pm, Tuesday/Thursday.
Room: Student
Center, Crystal Cove Room.
Readings:
Required reading:
Chapter 1-8 from David R. Anderson, Dennis J. Sweeney, and Thomas A. Williams
2004 Statistics for Business and Economics 9th Edition
South-western (referred as ASW)
lecture
notes, web pages, "help" and "tutorials"
systems for Microsoft Excel and SPSS.
Recommended reading:
Chapter 1-4 from William E. Griffiths, R. Carter Hill and George
G. Judge 1993 Learning and Practicing Econometrics John Wiley
& Sons, Inc. (referred as GHJ)
Computer
stuff:
It is
the best that you have your own computer. If so, you should have
Excel and SPSS installed in your computer.
If you
do not own a PC, you should plan to spend a good bit of time in
campus computer laboratories.
Assignments
and grades: Your
grade for this course will be determined by your work on:
Two
Quiz - 50% (25% for each)
Homework
- 20%
Final
examination - 30%
*** open book, open notes exams.
Final exam will be on Tuesday December 7th from 4-6 PM in the
regular classroom.
Course
policies:
Examinations and
assignments must be turned in at the regular due date. Work will
be accepted late only if a prior approval has been given by the
instructor or T.A. s. In the case of extraordinary
circumstances, you may discuss possible exceptions to this
policy with the instructor.
You are encouraged to
cooperate, and to help each other in doing homework assignments.
But, you must turn in your own work. You should not have someone
else do the work for you. Plagiarism results in automatic
failure of this course (as well as disciplinary action by the
campus administration).
You are not allowed to
cooperate on examinations. Actually, this will be regarded as
cheating, and results in automatic failure of the course.
Assignments may be
submitted by emails. If you do so, make sure that you get a
return message from the teaching assistant that confirms the
assignment was received.
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