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IAP 2007 Activity


Numerical Techniques in Economics
Stephen Ryan
Thu Jan 25, 09:30-10:30am, E51-361

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event

The talk will focus on introducing people to a variety of numerical techniques that can be useful in economic research. I will cover a little background on programming compiled languages versus interpreted environments like Matlab, equation solving and function minimization, dynamic programming, numerical integration and differentiation, and some references for further work.
Contact: Denise MacDougall, dmac@mit.edu
Sponsor: Economics
Latest update: 13-Dec-2006


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