ECON 426Quantile Regression in Economics
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- Last listed
- Spring 2024
No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog from Fall 2021 to Spring 2024. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.
In the course catalog from Fall 2021 to Spring 2024; Open Data has no classes for it in that time.
This course explores techniques to estimate conditional quantiles of a responsive variable. As opposed to least squares methods, which estimate the conditional mean, it provides a more complete picture of relationships between variables.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: One of ECON 323, STAT 221, STAT 231, STAT 241; Honours students or Economics majors
Discussed on r/uwaterloo
2 posts and comments in 2 threads mention ECON 426, April 2021 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.
Spring 2022
Is it really doable for math students to take 3rd/4th year econ courses with minimal previous economics experience? 1 point, 3 comments
u/plutoniator: “I'm talking about courses like ECON 322, 323, 421, 423, 424, 425, 426, how hard are these for math students that haven't taken any previous economics courses or have only taken 101 and 102 but otherwise satisfy the prereqs through math courses? …”
Winter 2021
Econometric courses 3 points, 0 comments
u/Yiru_Kaobei: “Has anyone taken Econ 421, 422, 423, 424, 425, 426? Could you please share your opinion on the course? Do you think is good to take them online or on campus?”
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