Matlab Tutorials

Matlab Tutorial Provided by mathworks.com

Here is the Description

1. You should have basic computer skills. For example, you should be comfortable with starting applications, opening, closing and saving files, cutting and pasting text, directory structures, etc.
2. You should know how to use a text editor, such as Windows Notepad, that you can use to write MATLAB programs. MATLAB also has its own built-in text editor which you can use(we’ll show you how).
3. You should know basic algebra and trigonometry such as is typically covered in high school. Knowledge of basic linear algebra(i.e., concepts such as matrix, vector, inverse etc.) would also be very helpful, but is not strictly necessary; basic concepts and constructs from linear algebra will be explained as needed.
4. The tutorial is intended to be highly interactive. While you are reading the exercise pages you should have MATLAB running in a separate window and you should perform and experiment with the tutorial exercises.

Prerequisites and Expectations for the Tutorial

• A Very Elementary MATLAB Tutorial
• Starting MATLAB
• Running the Demos
• Getting Help
• Creating Variables
• Performing Calculations
• Visualizing Data
• Creating Scripts with MATLAB Editor/Debugger
• Saving Variables and Sessions
• Working with Files, Directories and Paths

Now you are ready to start the MATLAB tutorial.

Good luck and have fun with MATLAB!

Other Than mathwork here is some other  MATLAB Tutorials

Tutorials

You can find many on-line tutorials on MATLAB on the internet. Listed below are some of them. These are second-hand documentations. Tutorials are meant to get you started, far from being complete. (For completeness, look to the next section.) Thus, topics missed in some will be picked up in others. The extent of coverage presented in the following first two links is suitable for ENCH250.

• “Getting Started with MATLAB” in HTML format from UMCP (66 pages)
• “Using MATLAB” in HTML format from UMCP (~600 pages)
• “MATLAB Function Reference” from UMCP
• Tutorial from MIT’s Athena (37 pages)
• 3-day MATLAB Tutorial from MIT (25 pages)
• Tutorial from Gilliam
• Tutorial from Ellinger/Barry University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (33 pages)
• Tutorials from Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Michigan (55 pages, especially aimed at control/systems)
  

  The first Basics Chapter from the above URL is suitable for ENCH250 students. Although other chapters are probably too advanced for sophomore ENCH250 students now, you can come back later when you take Chemical Process Control.

• Tutorial from Prof. Tilbury at the University of Michigan (old version of the above control stuff, 36 pages)
• Brief Tutorial from the University of Texas (10 pages)
• Tutorial by Prof. Sam Davis at Rice University (106 pages)
• Another Tutorial from the University of Florida (27 pages)
• Brief Tutorial from the Mathematics Department at the University of Utah (6 pages)
• Quick Reference Guide from the University of Waterloo (10 pages)
• Tutorial from SUNY Buffalo
• Tutorial from University of New Hampshire (28 pages)
• Hypertext reference from Portland State University (55 pages)
• Introductory Guide from University of British Columbia (20 pages)
• Tutorial from Gustavus Aslphus College (11 pages)

 

Online Research in Economics

There are some websites allow user to access research article at free of cost . Few of them are here

EconPapers
EconPapers is the part of RepEc that collects working papers in economics available on the Internet. There are over 150,000 downloadable working papers drawn from many hundreds of series from academics working in institutions from around the world. There are also over 250,000 downloadable journal articles, as well as smaller collections of books, book chapters, and software items. The database is continually increasing in size. Users can search for items of interest using a large number of search options or monitor the list of the latest arrivals.

EconWPA – Economics Working Papers Archive

This archive of the former site EconWPA.wustl.edu is a large collection of economics working papers. It is organised by JEL classifications with additional categories for Computer Programs, Data Sets, Risk and Insurance. In each sub-section there is a short list of related links. PDF files are available for between half and two-thirds of each section of papers.

Global Development Network

Global Development Network (GDN) is “a global network of research and policy institutes working together to address the problems of national and regional development.” Founded in 1999, GDN organises conferences, gives development awards, holds research competitions, runs research projects and has begun a data initiative enabling low income countries to access datasets. Partners in GDN include the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), International Monetary Fund, UNICEF and Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies. The Knowledge Base section of the site offers papers, researchers’ details, CVs, and links to research. GDN is working on giving access to journals for low income countries, in conjunction with the British Library of Development Studies (BLDS), UK.

IDEAS

A huge directory of economics working papers and articles, that is based on a project which created a protocol for the sharing of electronic working paper archives, called RePEc (Research Papers in Economics). Users can browse by series, by JEL classification or search by keyword. The service is based at the University of Connecticut but is a collaborative project involving many universities and economics academics.

Quantitative Macroeconomics and Real Business Cycle

This mixed collection of resources was produced by Swiss economist Christian Zimmerman, of the University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada. The pages link to several resources about quantitative macroeconomics and real business cycle (RBC) theory. Zimmerman explains that RBC theory is now also commonly called “Stochastic Dynamic General Equilibrium (SDGE)” theory, or “Dynamic General Equilibrium (DGE)” . Resources listed include definitions of RBC, economics recruitment websites, a directory of quantitative macreconomists, and research centres.

RGE Monitor

This site contains material on Macroeconomics produced by Professor Nouriel Roubini at the Stern School of Business, New York University. The site includes the text of lectures; a reading list, with many of the references being available full-text online; links to academic papers; interactive quizzes; and links to news stories on the Internet.

Social Science Research Network: SSRN

The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) website is primarily a searchable database of research abstracts and papers. The SSRN is made up of a small group of social science based subject networks that include accounting, economics, political science, financial economics and law. The SSRN maintains a range of web-based resources including an Abstract Database (with information regarding recent working and accepted papers) and an Electronic Working Paper Collection (that includes PDF files containing full-text of recent research papers). The SSRN also publishes individually delivered email abstracting journals in over 100 different subject areas and announces and delivers research papers for many research institutes, universities and professional organizations.

Social, Economic and Political Change

Compiled and managed by Dr. Gene Shackman, this website ‘looks at long term, large scale changes in social, political and economic systems at the national and international levels. The principal aim is to present information that can be used to explain historical change, growth and development.’ After an introductory summary by the author, various sections (Theory, Data, National Profiles, etc.) offer annotated lists of websites. The presentation is basic and easy to navigate; the collection of sites is useful and the annotation is brief but helpful. The site also contains a number of reports about global social, political, economic and demographic change.

Vox

Vox is a policy portal featuring research-based analysis and commentary from Europe’s leading economists, that is produced by the Centre for Economic Policy Research. The primary intended audience is economists and users of economic research in governments, international organisations, academia and the private sector as well as journalists and commentators specialising in economics, finance and business. Vox provides access to short articles between 500 and 1500 words that are written at an analytical level that is higher than a typical newspaper column but very much more accessible than a journal article. Users can view the most recent articles, explore the archive by tag, subject, author or keyword search and subscribe to various RSS feeds. Registered users can comment on articles.

Student Handouts on Using Excel in Economics Projects

David Allen, University of the West of England, Bristol, wrote this “Using Excel in your economics assignments” guide from his 3rd year course.  It makes extensive use of screen shots and word art to take students through the stages of preparing graphs for incorporation in a report.

Purpose

1. To introduce you to the use of Excel spreadsheets to plot and analyse time series data.
2. Demonstrate how diagrams can be created in Word using the drawing features found in this software.

Sections

1. Importing data from a Word table in to an Excel file
2. Plotting time series data using Excel’s chart wizard
3. Formatting a data plot (the Excel chart)
4. Creating a duplicate data plot
5. Transferring an Excel chart to a Word document
6. From time series data create a scatter plot and fit a trend line (line of best fit)
7. Creating a diagram in Word using ‘Insert Object’

The World is Flat 3.0

Back in 2000, Tom Friedman recounts, the world began to shrink and flatten, under the influence of digital interconnectivity. Elaborating on his World is Flat thesis, Friedman describes how this new global order puts creative, entrepreneurial individuals in the driver’s seat, and poses distinct new challenges and opportunities.

The digital platform that connects Bangalore, Boston and Beijing enables users from any of these places to “plug, play, compete, connect and collaborate,” and is changing everything, says Friedman. He lists some basics to keep in mind: Whatever can be done, will be done, “and the only question left is will it be done by you or to you.” Friedman describes a Budapest limo driver who asked him to refer friends traveling to Hungary to use his service — as detailed in a website in Magyar, with English and German translations. And there’s the Sioux City- Winnebago Indian network, exporting construction tools to Kuwait. In our new era, individuals are limited only by their imaginations, so how well universities and schools enable and inspire students will determine who wins in global competition. Innovation, believes Friedman, will come from “having two or more specialties,” from those people able to connect the dots and mash them together.

But the U.S. has a real problem: We’ve “kind of lost our groove since 9/11,” and may end up ceding the global competition to China unless we get our act together, believes Friedman. We “cannot go on being as dumb as we want to be, and right now that is the motto of the U.S. Congress.” We have tons of natural attributes in this country we should be leveraging, he says. A bigger problem still is that three billion new players are streaming into this newly flat world, seeking their own version of the American dream, with cars, toasters, and microwaves. “If we don’t find a cleaner, more non-emitting way to power their dreams, we’re going to burn up, choke up, heat up and smoke up this planet so much faster than even Al Gore predicts.” Friedman scoffs at those who claim “a green revolution is going on,” calling it instead a green party, entailing no real sacrifice or pain. He says the only hope will be a “disruptive breakthrough” that brings a completely different mix of standards and taxes.” Friedman’s new mantra is, “Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.” Without new leaders to rewrite our laws and trigger the innovations, “we are cooked.”

Play Now | SPEAKER: Thomas L. Friedman Foreign Affairs Columnist, The New York Times Author

STATA Tutorial

People who are yet to learn STATA to do empirical works can get immense help from this STATA tutorial. This is little old but still effective. This tutorial for STATA 5 offers a beautiful in and out guide for the STATA leaners.

Have a look.