Statistical Tools for Economists
by Daniel McFadden
Publisher: University of California, Berkeley 2001
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From the table of contents: Economic Analysis and Econometrics; Analysis and Linear Algebra in a Nutshell; Probability Theory in a Nutshell; Limit Theorems in Statistics; Experiments, Sampling, and Statistical Decisions; Estimation; Hypothesis Testing.
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