• Syllabus for Econometrics I (ECON/FIN 662 )
• Other Faculty Teaching Econometrics: Dr. Fowler; Dr. Klein; Dr. Rennhoff; Dr. Zietz.

    R language resources

• The R project
• Econometrics in R, by Grant Farnsworth
• All contributed documentation
• RSeek.org R-project Search Engine
• Jonathan Baron’s R help page
• CRAN Task Views
• CRAN - Contributed Packages
• R Wiki
• Quick-R: Home Page

2009 New York Times article on R

Other econometric software

• STATA home page; STATA help page (replace “contents” in the URL with the term you seek)
• SAS online help at SAS ; UCLA SAS help
• MATLAB home page; The Econometrics Toolbox, by James LeSage
• Google Code search (use “lang:R”, “lang:SAS”, “lang:stata”, “lang:MatLab”, etc.)
• Software for Economists

Getting started with econometrics at MTSU

• Dr. Zietz's "Getting Started with Computing in Economics."
• Download PuTTY
• Filezilla FTP client software
• Linux Command Directory: Index

Useful links

• Open Directory Project sites for Economics.
• Resources for Economists
• EconPapers: Archive of Working Papers in Economics
• Journals in Economics (ranked)
• Full Text Electronic Journals at MTSU Library
• Web of Science
• Economics Journals on the Web
• How to Write a Scholarly Paper
• How to Publish in Top Journals
• Writing advice from John Cochrane

Links to data

• Databases available through MTSU's Business and Economic Research Center
• Best starting point for regional economic data
• Secular Data--International Institute of Social History
• National Longitudinal Surveys
• IPUMS
• UN repository of international data
• US Federal Government data
• St. Louis Fed financial data (FRED II)
• Index to social science data sites

     Weekly handouts for Econometrics I

• Week 1 downloads
• Week 2 downloads
• Week 3 downloads SCCS codebook
• Week 4  downloads
• Week 5 downloads
• Week 6 downloads
• Week 7 downloads
• Week 8 downloads
• Week 9 downloads
• Week 10 downloads SCCS primer
• Week 11 downloads
• Week 12 downloads