The course covers the consequences of and tests for violation of assumptions of classical linear regression model.
Meaning, reasons, consequences, detection and remedies of the problem of multicolliearity.
Meaning, reasons, consequences, detection and remedies of the problem of heteroscedasticity.
Meaning, reasons, consequences, detection and remedies of the problem of serial correlation.
Meaning of model specification, Specification error- omission of a relevant variable; inclusion of irrelevant variable; errors of measurement, tests of specification errors.
Nature of dummy variables; ANOVA and ANCOVA models; caution in the use of dummy variable-the dummy variable trap; the dummy variable alternative to the chow test; Interaction effects using dummy variables.
. D. N. Gujarati and D.C. Porter, Essentials of Econometrics, McGraw
Hill.
2. Christopher Dougherty, Introduction to Econometrics, Oxford University
Press.
3. Jan Kmenta, Elements of Econometrics, Indian Reprint, Khosla Publishing
House.
4. A. Koutsoyiannis, Theory of Econometric, Palgrave Macmillan.