Analysis of Economic Data

This book is great until you hit chapter 5 and the statistical regression. Then it turns into garbage. This book is likely supposed to be used in conjunction with some teaching however my teacher sucks and I got stuck reading this book.Do not purchase unless you have a very good understanding of Stats and good knowledge of excel. If you are stuck with this book in college I highly recommend paying someone on craigslist to do your homework. The book is useless.

Wasteful material

After browsing, I saw that it attempted to teach stats without going into the maths in too much detail. Instead the author wanted the reader to gain intuition for regression first of all, and then go on to study in the traditional way armed with this knowledge.Seemed like a good idea, but after about 80 pages I gave up and went for the various Dummies books instead, plus a couple of others.Coming back to it now having learnt so much, it makes a lot more sense. But the first time around it was too challenging and demotivating to say the least. Also, there may be less maths, but it is heavy on using the old greek letters with about 10 subscripts/superscipts clinging on to them somewhere.This isn't a bad book overall and I like the idea of not focusing on the maths, but think this is best read AFTER having gone through those books.

This was recommended by course tutor but it's very wordy and repetitive with NO workable examples which I find surprising

Extremely good introduction - very easy to read, explains all the key concepts well and with very good and clear examples.