ESF:DXE_EREC Essentials of R for Econometri - Course Information
DXE_EREC Essentials of R for Econometrics
Faculty of Economics and AdministrationAutumn 2023
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/5/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Ing. Štěpán Mikula, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Ing. Štěpán Mikula, Ph.D.
Department of Economics – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Supplier department: Department of Economics – Faculty of Economics and Administration - Timetable
- Fri 13. 10. 9:00–11:00 MT205, 13:00–15:00 MT205
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 26 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives (in Czech)
- The course is designed for PhD students of the Econometrics course who have zero experience with R or programming in general. The course provides an overview of essential concepts that are necessary for learning Econometrics in R.
- Learning outcomes (in Czech)
- After completing the course, a student will be able:
- to read simple R codes and understand basic concepts;
- to load/read data clean data;
- to conduct simple econometric analysis;
- to continue studying R - Syllabus (in Czech)
- - R and RStudio/Posit IDE
- - Workspace and variables
- - Installing/loading packages
- - Scripts
- - Basic data types and classes
- - Loading/reading data
- - Formulas
- - Estimation functions (lm(), and feols() from fixest package)
- Literature
- required literature
- WICKHAM, Hadley and Garrett GROLEMUND. R for data science : import, tidy, transform, visualize, and model data. First edition. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 2016, xxv, 492. ISBN 9781491910399. info
- Teaching methods (in Czech)
- Lecture and class demonstrations/discussions
- Assessment methods (in Czech)
- Attendance and active participation in classes
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2023, recent)
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