1. Introduction 2 -- Start using Gretl and R 3 -- Basic Material 4 -- Hypothesis testing 5 -- Simple linear regression 6 -- Multiple regression 7 -- Regression using dummy variables 8 -- Non linear models 9 -- Time series analysis 10 -- Other statistical tools.

Previous work has analyzed whether luminosity data contain useful information for estimating economic output and concluded that there was significant promise for regions with poor quality economic statistics. The present paper examines alternative measures of the precision of the estimates using...