MATLAB for Economics and Econometrics A Beginners Guide

John Frain ()

Economic Papers from Trinity College Dublin, Economics Department

Abstract: This beginners' guide to MATLAB for economics and econometrics is an updated and extended version of Frain (2010). The examples and illustrations here are based on Matlab version 8.3 (R2014a). It describes the new MATLAB Desktop, contains an introductory MATLAB session showing elementary MATLAB operations, gives details of data input/output, decision and loop structures, elementary plots, describes the LeSage econometrics toolbox and shows how to do maximum likelihood estimation. Various worked examples of the use of MATLAB in economics and econometrics are also given. I see MATLAB not only as a tool for doing economics/econometrics but as an aid to learning economics/econometrics and understanding the use of linear algebra there. This document can also be seen as an introduction to the MATLAB on-line help, manuals and various specialist MATLAB books.

Keywords: Matlab; Econometric Software (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C87 C88 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 167 pages
Date: 2014-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-pke
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.tcd.ie/Economics/TEP/2014/TEP0414.pdf

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:tcd:tcduee:tep0414

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Economic Papers from Trinity College Dublin, Economics Department Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Colette Angelov ().