Herman J. Bierens, "Introduction to the Mathematical and Statistical Foundations of Econometrics"
ISBN: 0521834317 | edition 2004 | PDF | 345 pages | 10 mb
This book is intended to be used in a first-semester Ph.D. level course in econometrics, but because it contains much advanced material, particularly in the appendices to the chapters, it is also suitable for a field course in econometric theory. The focus of this book is on understanding why rather than how the mathematical and statistical foundations of econometrics are established. Therefore, the text provides all the proofs, or at least motivations if proofs are too complicated, of the mathematical and statistical results necessary for understanding modern econometric theory. In this respect it differs from all other econometrics textbooks.