Project Two
Groups I, 2, & 3 email ppt. as attached file to
Mark Dotson mark.dotson@ic.ucsb.edu
Subject: econ 240a
Message Mark: please add this file to the lab nine
folder
Outline
I. Projects
 II. Goodness of Fit & Chi Square
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Part I: Projects
Teams
 Assignments
 Presentations
 Data Sources
 Grades
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Group1
Torbjorn Bjering
Ho-Jung Hsiao
Eric Griffin
Chun-Hung Lin
Gulsa Guenec
Gaoyuan Tian
Laura Braeutigan
Group 2
Aleksander Keyfes
Christopher Stroud
Visut Hemuthi
Marisa Pittman
Noelle Hirneise
Lindsey Aspel
Group 3
Jeff Lee
Zhen Tian
Tsung-Ching Huang
Oystein Tennum
Christian Treubig
Edmund Bedach
Group 4
Julianne Shan
Brian Abe
Yu-Ting Cheng
Kathinka Tysnes
Huan Zhang
Andrew Booth
Group 5
Yao Wang
Brooks Allen
Morgan Hansen
Yuli Yan
Ting Zheng
Uthra Radhakrishnan
Group 6
Matthew Mullens
Chungkai Gao
Eric Wright
Tore Bjoendal
Daniel Helling
Chien-Ju Lin
Team One
: Project choice
 : Data Retrieval
 : Statistical Analysis
 : PowerPoint Presentation
 : Executive Summary
 : Technical Appendix
 : Graphics (Excel, Eviews, other)
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Assignments
1. Project choice:
 2. Data Retrieval:
 3. Statistical Analysis:
 4. PowerPoint Presentation:
 5. Executive Summary:
 6. Technical Appendix:
 7. Graphics:
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PowerPoint Presentations: Member
4
 1. Introduction: Members 1 ,2 , 3
What
 Why
 How
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2. Executive Summary: Member 5
 3. Exploratory Data Analysis: Members 3,
7
 4. Descriptive Statistics: Member 3, 7
 5. Statistical Analysis: Member 3
 6. Conclusions: Members 3 & 5
 7. Technical Appendix: Table of
Contents, Member 6
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Executive Summary and
Technical Appendix
I.
Your report should have an executive summary of one to one
and a half pages that summarizes your findings in words for a nontechnical reader. It should explain the problem being examined
from an economic perspective, i.e. it should motivate interest in the
issue on the part of the reader. Your report should explain how you
are investigating the issue, in simple language. It should explain
why you are approaching the problem in this particular fashion.
Your executive report should explain the economic importance of
your findings.
The technical details of your findings you can attach as an
appendix with page numbers and a a Table of Contents..
Data Sources
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FRED: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis,
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred/
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Business/Fiscal
 Index
of Consumer Sentiment, Monthly (1952:11)
 Light Weight Vehicle Sales, Auto and Light Truck,
Monthly (1976.01)
Economagic, http://www.economagic.com/
 U S Dept. of Commerce,
http://www.commerce.gov/
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Population
 Economic Analysis, http://www.bea.gov/
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Data Sources (Cont. )
Bureau of Labor Statistics,
http://stats.bls.gov/
 California Dept of Finance,
http://www.dof.ca.gov/
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