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

[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.