Econometrics & Excel?

[abrapollock.livejournal.com]

Hello people,

I am thinking of trying to take a course in basic econometrics to shore up my professional qualifications for a field I'm interested in.  I'd also like to improve my Excel skills from intermediate to advanced.

Can anyone suggest a location in the Boston area where I could take these type of courses?  I've already checked the Harvard Extension School, and they don't seem to offer them.

I could just take the the courses at local universities, but I'm not sure if universities allow random people who aren't enrolled to take their courses... right?

Thanks for any advice you can provide--

Abra

Comments

[smoterh.livejournal.com]

Tufts is offering basic econometrics during summer session. As a somerville/medford resident you can audit the classes for $60

http://ase.tufts.edu/summer/courses/index.asp?Dept=&Course=o&ot=12&o=5609##form

[somerfriend.livejournal.com]

Also see if MIT's open course website has an econometrics class.

Excel I find it's easier to learn advanced stuff by doing. If you have a need, then you search out the Excel tricks that will fill that need. If you don't know Pivot Tables, Vlookup, data sorting etc look online on how to do those.

[gandalfgreyhame.livejournal.com]

Many universities allow random people who aren't enrolled to take courses for credit - the term is non-matriculated (or non-matriculating) student.

[siderea]

Also called "special student" status.

[ron_newman]

For the Excel, I'd take a look at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education and Boston Center for Adult Education catalogs, each of which come out several times a year.

(Edited to add links.)

[siderea]

... I'm pretty sure that I've never heard the term "econometrics" before, yet yours was the first of two posts to cross my flist to use it today.

The other was a post on MarginalRevolution.com pointing out a completely free econometrics course on YouTube.

[gingicat]

BU's Metropolitan College is also designed for that sort of thing.

[ron_newman]

If Harvard Extension has an appropriate course for the Excel part of your request, it's on this page. However, it's too late to sign up for this semester.

Harvard Summer School has an econometrics course.

[makoshark.livejournal.com]

Any statistics course will do -- especially if it is geared for the social sciences (e.g., education, sociology, political science; psychology tends to be focused on experiments which are evaluated differently). Econometrics is really just basic statistics applied to economic data. There are certain techniques that are more common in economics than in other areas of statistics but you won't get to them for at least a couple terms.