The Theory & Practice of Econometrics

by R. Carter Hill, William E. Griffiths, George G. Judge

This Second Edition of the highly acclaimed introduction to econometrics retains its comprehensive nature and strong authorship, while incorporating much new material. New to this edition are a complete treatment of Bayesian inference, sampling theory, an appendix on linear algebra, and a computer handbook. Presentation covers modern statistical models and focuses on the sampling theory process by which the data were generated, and the statistical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471099627
• ISBN13: 9780471099628
• Release Date: February 1980
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 393 Pages

Customer Reviews

This was the econometrics bible but they never updated it

Judge, et al. was the standard reference in econometrics in the late 80s and early 90s. It's a terrific text because it has both theory and applications (with emphasis on the former, though). The best thing about it at the time of its publication was it was very complete, covering almost everything that was known in econometrics at the time. Unfortunately, the book was never updated, and now nobody uses it; instead, people use the poorly written one by William Greene, which contributes to the poor education in grad-level econometrics these days. (Have you noticed that today's econometrics students, even the Ph.D. ones and even some assistant professors, don't even understand the relationship between R-squared and t-statistic? I get asked "why am I getting super-high t-statistics while my R^2 is so low?" all the time. If they had read Judge et al., they would have known the answer.) Even though I loved this book in teh early 90s, I cannot recommend it as a reference book because it is pretty much out of date. Sure, most of the basic stuff (OLS, 2SLS, limited dependent, etc.) is the same, but people who buy a thick book like this want an up-to-date volume, and this book unfortunately does not fit the bill. It's so sad that such a comprehensive and well-written volume has totally languished into obscurity.

Precise and concise

Another review stated that Green was a clearer book than Judge et al. No way. This book starts and concludes thoughts without the constant refer to section blah blah blah found in Green. Also Judge et al. is accurate; something sorely missing in Green. Hamilton on the other hand focuses strictly on time series, and forecasting. If you want a solid reference for econometrics this is the most complete and well thought out book available.