Econometrics Memes and Poems, 2021-2022

Memes and Poems by Williams College ECON-255 students, Academic Year 2021-2022

Meme by Maria Avrantini ‘23

Poem by Zola Baird ‘23

An Ode to the OLS Regression

An Ordinary Least Squares Estimator
Cuts through the noise to estimate the population data
It does this using its two friends Beta hat
These sample counterparts act as stand ins for the true population coefficients
And if they are useful, they will produce an R squared that is more than sufficient!

Meme by Zola Baird ‘23

Haiku by Lily Levin ‘23

Difference-in-Difference

We should embrace change.
Your growth diverges from B’s;
that’s why you’re unique.

Anonymous 255 Student meme 1

Anonymous 255 Student poem

Metrics and Meter

After time spent researching and time spent pondering,
Our dataset stood clean, free of any error,
A testament to our intellectual wandering,
A beacon against ignorance, that statistical terror.
Through Stata, we learned and began our procession,
The strength to topple untrue fact,
Our tool, the linear regression,
And a commitment to truth as our pact.

Anonymous 255 Student meme 2

Anonymous 255 Student haiku

econometrics,
stats, and the real world,
plus stata breaking