This appendix shows the use of basic statistical inference tools. The chapter is divided in three main sections: hypothesis testing, confidence intervals and regression analysis. The aim is to offer the basic requirements needed for the reader of “Aplicaciones en Economía y Ciencias Sociales...

This chapter studies the effect of short- and long-run shocks on the Mexican GDP. The authors fit a structural VAR model using the Blanchard and Quah decomposition for a bivariate model to analyze the impact of supply and demand shocks on GDP and prices. The svar command allows the estimation of...