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Klcin;Reprinted with permis.sion of the author.  Schulz:Reprintedwith permissiun.  Musgrave:Reprinicdwith permission.  Ohta,Griliches,Terle.ckyj:Reprinted with permission.  Ashen-felter:Reprinted with permission.Stigler:Reprinted with permission.  Schultz:Re-printed with permission.  Watson:FrumMorgan and Langford,Fac7s and Fuflucies.Exeter.England:Webb&Bower,1981,p.  \nand Navasky.The Experts Speak:The lctn·iite Compcrnafim ofAuthoritative Misinfur-nation,NY:Pantheon Books,【984.p.209.Morley:Reprinted with permission.Ein-slcin:NY:Crown Publishers,1954.p.274.Malkiel.NY:W.W.Nortun and Co.,Inc.,1985,p.152.Reprinted with permission.Spence:Copyright 1981.Reprinted fromThe Bell Journal of Ecutumics,with permis.sion of The RAND Corporalion.ThePrie Statisrics of the Fiderul Gvernntent.(Credets continue on p.680.whichconstitutes a continuation of thecopyrighi psge.)  \n44.Reprinted with permission.  From Cerf  \nIBM and IBM PC are registered trademarks of lnternational Business Machines Cor-poration.Lotus.1-2-3.and Symphony are registered trademarks of Lotus Develop-ment Corporation.MicroTSP is a trademark of Quantitative Micro Sofiware.TimeSeries Processor and TSP are trademarks of TSP International.MINITAB is a regis-tered trademark of Minitab.Inc.Other products mentioned as examples may also hetrademarked by their manufacturers.  \nAddison-Wesley makes no warranties,either expressed or implied,regarding theenclosed computer software,its merchantability or fitness for any marticular purpose.The exclusion of implied warranties is not permitted by some stales.The abuve exclu-sion may not apply to you.This warranty provicdes you with specific lcgaf rights.Theremay be other rights that you niay have which vary from state lo state.  \nlt is a violation of copyright law to make a copy of this softwar except for backuppurposes to guard against accidental loss or damage.  \nLibrary of Cosgress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nBerndt,Ernst R.  \nThe practice of econometrics:classic and contemporary/Ernst R.Bendt.  \np.cm.  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.ISBN 0-201-17628-9  \n1.Economctrics.1.Tiule.HBI39.B471990330.01'5195-dc20  \n90-46332  \nCIP  \nopyright c 1991 by Addison-Wesley Publishing Cumpany,Ine.  \nMI rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in a retrievalyslem,or transmitted.in any form ur by any means,electronic,mechanical.phof(·opying,recording,or otherwise,withoul the prior written perimssion uf the publisher.rinted in the Unted States of America  \nackage ISBN 0-201-51489-3  \nook ISBN 0-201-17628.4)  \nisk KSBN0-201-51488-5  \nPreface  \nThe term\"econometrics\"was apparently first used by Pawel Ciompa in 1910in a somewhat obscure book published in Germany.To Ciompa,the goals of“oekonometrie”were to describe economic data series mathematically and todisplay them geometrically and graphically.According to the Nobel LaureateRagnar Frisch,however,Ciompa's view of econometrics was t0o narrow,since it emphasized only the descriptive side of econometrics.Writing asfounding editor in the inaugural issue of Econometrica in 1933,Frischdefined econometncs in more general terms:  \nEconometries is by no means the same as cconomic statisties.Nor is itidentical with whal we call general ecunomic theory,although a consid-crable portion of this theory has a definitely quantitative character.Norshould econometrics be taken as synonomous(sic)with the application ofmathematics to economics.Experience has shown that each of these threeview-points,that of statistics,economic t","cbCaibTO5IBrVYYE","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibTO5IBrVYYE","pdf",920520,"English","# Preface\n## Meaning and origin of econometrics\n## Creative tension between theory and observation\n## Goals of teaching and book focus\n## Learning environments and intended use","[{\"question\":\"How does the preface define econometrics conceptually?\",\"answer\":\"It presents econometrics as the unification of statistics, economic theory, and mathematics. 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