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Most graduate level econometrics textbooks require the readers to have some background in intermediate level mathematical probability and statistics. A lot of students, however, took business and economic statistics and then econometric courses in the undergraduate program.

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    See, for example, Timoshenko (1940, p. 343).

  2. 2.

    See Artin (1964) for the properties of the gamma function.

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Yu, K. (2019). Probability. In: Mathematical Economics. Springer Texts in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27289-0_8

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