External links: Quantitative Methods

Mathematics

Karl's Calculus Tutor (http://www.karlscalculus.org/)

Nice on-line tutorial on math but particularly useful is the "Math Notation via Email" where he introduces standard notations that have evolved in discussion forum/ email.

LTSN Maths, Stats & OR Network (http://ltsn.mathstore.ac.uk/)

LTSN Maths, Stats & OR Network supports the learning and teaching of Mathematics, Statistics and Operational Research. It contains educational resources, news and information. There is mailing list information, contact addresses, and links to a wealth of statistical resources worldwide. The site is also available in Welsh. This is one of the network of LTSN sites in the UK

Statistics/Data analysis

Internet for Social Statistics (http://www.sosig.ac.uk/vts/social-statistics/)

Internet for Social Statistics is a free "teach yourself" tutorial on the Web, teaching Internet information skills for social statistics. The tutorial is aimed at students lecturers and researchers who want to improve their knowledge of the best Internet resources for this subject. It takes around an hour to do and includes quizzes and interactive exercises. There are also "Resources for Trainers" to support the use of the tutorial by librarians and lecturers who teach Internet Literacy.

STATLETS (http://www.stat.duke.edu/sites/java.html)

This collection of of Java applets comes from NWP Associates, Inc. Datasets up to 100 rows, 10 columns can be analyzed for free; anything larger requires a subscription.

ExploreLearning (http://www.explorelearning.com/GizmoList.cfm)

Very cute applet exploring the Mean Median and Mode (but a bit heavy if you are connecting through modem).

Econometrics

Econometric Resources on the Net (http://www.oswego.edu/~kane/econometrics/)

Designed to assist econometrics students and practicing econometricians, by John Kane.

the Econometric Links of the Econometrics Journal (http://www.feweb.vu.nl/econometriclinks/)

A comprehensive and well-maintained link page all about econometrics.

The Econometrics Laboratory at UC Berkeley (http://elsa.berkeley.edu/)

The Econometrics Software Laboratory Archive at the University of California, Berkeley facilitate interchange of computational algorithms that have economic applications.

Handbook of Econometrics, Vols. 1-5 (http://www1.elsevier.com/hes/books/02/menu02.htm)

Critical perspectives on QM

Ehrbar (2000) "Irrealist Lines of Defense in Econometrics"

Hans G. Ehrbar explores mechanisms which allow econometrics to remain an ideology, rather than science. PDF file downloadable from the author's Home Page.

Hendry (1980) "Econometrics - Alchemy or Science?"

Keynes argued that econometrics is statistical alchemy. Hendry revisits this issue. Article downloadable from JSTOR:

"Econometrics-Alchemy or Science?"

David F. Hendry

Economica, New Series, Vol. 47, No. 188. (Nov., 1980), pp. 387-406.

McCloskey (1985) "The Loss Function Has Been Mislaid: The Rhetoric of Significance Tests,"

PDF file downloadable from author's homepage. Published as:

"The Loss Function Has Been Mislaid: The Rhetoric of Significance Tests,"

American Economic Review, Supplement 75 (2, May 1985): 201-205.

Data resources

Data bases available at SOAS

World Bank Development Indicators

The World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development from 1960 and onwards.

African Development Indicators

Data from 53 African countries, arranged in separate tables or matrices for more than 500 development indicators. The indicators are grouped into 15 chapters: background data, national accounts, prices and exchange rates, money and banking, the external sector, external debt and related flows, government finance, agriculture, power, communications and transportation, public enterprises, labor force and employment, aid flows, social indicators, environmental indicators, and household welfare indicators. Most of the indicators present data by year for the period 1970–98.

Global Development Finance

Includes a comprehensive set of tables with statistical data for 138 countries that report debt under the World Bank Debtor Reporting System, as well as summary data for regions and income groups. It contains data on total external debt stocks and flows, aggregates, and key debt ratios, and provides a detailed, country-by-country picture of debt, with more than 200 historical time series from 1970 to 2001, and country group estimates for 2002.

United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) database

Two types of data sets are avaiblable. In UNIDO Industrial Statistics Database at the 3-Digit (INDSTAT3) the data are arranged according to the ISIC at the three-digit level, which provides for the inclusion of 29 industries in the manufacturing sector. Information refers to each of the following items and is presented by country, year and ISIC category: number of establishments, employment, wages and salaries, output, value added, gross fixed capital formation, number of female employees and production indexes. All value data are originally stored in national currency values at current prices. The system allows for data conversion from national currency into current U.S. dollars using the average period exchange rates as given in the IMF International Financial Statistics (IFS). UNIDO Industrial Statistics Databases at the 4-Digit (INDSTAT4) contains time series data on seven selected data items for the period covering 1990 onwards, arranged at the 3- and 4-digit level of ISIC (Revision 3) pertaining to the manufacturing sector, which comprises 151 manufacturing categories.

Datastream

Datastream is a commercial database holding information on stock prices around the world, company accounts and some macroeconomic indicators.

Data bases on the web

Penn World Tables (http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/)

The Penn World Table provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 168 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2000. The European Union or the OECD provide more detailed purchasing power and real product estimates for their countries and the World Bank makes current price estimates for most PWT countries at the GDP level.

Statlib (http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/)

Downloadable data sets

Macroeconomic time series (http://www.fgn.unisg.ch/eumacro/macrodata/macroeconomic-time-series.html )

Compiles 19 macroeconomic time series for each of 19 countries.

Economic Time Series Page (http://www.economagic.com/)

Vast amount of economic data for economic research. Over 100,000 series concentrating on the United States, but with limited data on Australian, European, and Japanese economies.

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