Preface xvi Acknowledgments xix Introduction
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PART ONE Single-Equation Regression Models 13 1 The Nature of Regression Analysis
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2 Two-Variable Regression Analysis:
Some Basic Ideas
34
3 Two-Variable Regression Model: The
Problem of Estimation
55
4 Classical Normal Linear Regression
Model (CNLRM)
97
5 Two-Variable Regression: Interval
Estimation and Hypothesis Testing
107
6 Extensions of the Two-Variable
Linear Regression Model
147
7 Multiple Regression Analysis: The
Problem of Estimation
188
8 Multiple Regression Analysis: The
Problem of Inference
233
9 Dummy Variable Regression Models
277
PART TWO Relaxing the Assumptions of the Classical Model 315 10 Multicollinearity: What Happens
If the Regressors Are Correlated?
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11 Heteroscedasticity: What Happens If
the Error Variance Is Nonconstant?
365
12 Autocorrelation: What Happens If
the Error Terms Are Correlated?
412
13 Econometric Modeling: Model
Specification and Diagnostic Testing
467
PART THREE Topics in Econometrics 523 14 Nonlinear Regression Models
525
15 Qualitative Response Regression
Models
541
16 Panel Data Regression Models
591
17 Dynamic Econometric Models:
Autoregressive and
Distributed-Lag Models
617
PART FOUR Simultaneous-Equation Models and Time Series Econometrics