Econometrics, the offspring of Statistics and Economics, is a science which investigates methods for analyzing economic data and drawing economic inferences from those data. This science is taught in almost every graduate program as it is fundamental to the way economists measure economies and...

This chapter is an introduction to the series Handbooks in Economics . The aim of this series is to produce Handbooks for various branches of economics, each of which is a definitive source, reference, and teaching supplement for use by professional researchers and advanced graduate students....