TY - BOOK AU - Ramanathan, Ramu TI - Introductory econometrics with applications SN - 9780155464858 AV - HB 139 .R36 1989 PY - 1989/// CY - San Diego, California PB - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers KW - ECONOMETRICS N1 - Includes index; Part I. Background -- Part II. Basics -- Part III. Extensions -- Part IV. Analyzing Time Series Data -- Part V. Special Issues with Cross-Section Data -- Part VI. Simultaneous Equation Models -- Part VII. Practice N2 - In the last decade, econometrics ( the application of statistical methods to estimating economic relationship, testing hypotheses on economic behavior, and forecasting economic variables) has become a very widely used tool in the hands of federal, state, and local government policy makers, a well as researchers in business and industry ER -