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8. Probability

Author : Kam Yu

Published in: Mathematical Economics

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Most graduate level econometrics textbooks require the readers to have some background in intermediate level mathematical probability and statistics. A lot of students, however, took business and economic statistics and then econometric courses in the undergraduate program.

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Footnotes
1
See, for example, Timoshenko (1940, p. 343).
 
2
See Artin (1964) for the properties of the gamma function.
 
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Metadata
Title
Probability
Author
Kam Yu
Copyright Year
2019
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27289-0_8