The textbook has problems and has several examples worked out. There will be no assigned homework problems. It will be the students responsibility to do enough problems to master the material. The actual number of problems any one student will have to do t0 achieve mastery will depend upon the material and the students. Each student is responsible for doing enough problems.
Computers are very useful in economic statistics.
Some of the calculations required to obtain useful results are very tedious to do by hand. STAT is a modern PC based statistical package that should be very easy to learn. Also the Mirer textbook uses data sets to provide its examples. There will be four projects in Economics 307. All of the projects will essentially be computer assignments.