Quotes About Econometrics

#1. Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference.

Paul Samuelson

#2. The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.

Thomas J. Sargent

#3. I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in financial history.

Niall Ferguson

#4. Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of self-reliance.

E.F. Schumacher

#5. A good way to do econometrics is to look for good natural experiments and use statistical methods that can tidy up the confounding factors that Nature has not controlled for us.

Daniel McFadden

#6. I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models.

Lars Peter Hansen

#7. Music carries the weight of being human, takes it away so you don't have to think at all, you just have to listen. Music tells every story there is.

Estelle Laure

#8. I was never afriad of what was under the bed. I wanted it but never got it. I became it.

Marilyn Manson

#9. In therapy the individual learns to recognize and express his feelings as his own feelings, not as a fact about another person.

Carl R. Rogers

#10. It means everything for me to serve as the CEO of a convention.

Leah D. Daughtry

#11. To learn how to swim, observe fish.
To learn how to hunt, observe lions.
To learn how to work, observe bees.
To learn how to live, observe sages.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#12. A mere redrawing of borders, a change in governments, those things can never faze a Jewess with a good supply of hand wipes in her bag.

Michael Chabon

#13. No, the sky, it is not a contest or an exam. The only question is, can you look up? Can you take it all in?

Clare Vanderpool

#14. Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Harper Lee

#15. The whole world seems tilted, my inner ear displaced by a hole where my spouse used to be.

Suzanne Finnamore

#16. we see the world as we are, not as the world is.

David Rock