Quantitative Methods in International Business with Python

The course book and the lecture slides — MATH60033A

Thierry Warin, PhD · HEC Montréal

☰ The course book Twelve chapters as continuous prose — every method derived, then run in Python on real data. Searchable across the whole course. Read → ▦ Python cheatsheets One sheet per package — pandas, NumPy, matplotlib, statsmodels, scikit-learn and more — each function explained, with a picture of what it does. Open →
01 The SyllabusWhat the course asks of you, how you are judged, and the rules on using a language model Open → also: cheatsheet · practice · pre session
02 Exploratory Data AnalysisCentre, spread and shape — mean, median, trimmed mean, variance, IQR, skewness, kurtosis Open → also: cheatsheet · practice · pre session
03 Adequacy, Validity and RobustnessResidual diagnostics, goodness of fit, influence, information criteria Open → also: cheatsheet · practice · pre session
04 Logistic RegressionBinary, ordinal and multinomial outcomes in international business research Open → also: cheatsheet · practice · pre session
05 Ridge, Lasso and the Elastic NetRegularisation: shrinkage, sparsity and the grouping effect Open → also: cheatsheet · practice · pre session
06 Regression: Advanced ConsiderationsPanel data, non-linearity, categorical variables and interactions Open → also: cheatsheet · practice · pre session
07 Replication WorkshopFour papers, one toolkit: the course's models on the papers' data, in autonomy Open → also: cheatsheet · practice · pre session
08 KNN and FriendsThe Bayes classifier, k-nearest neighbours and the bias–variance trade-off Open → also: cheatsheet · practice · pre session
09 Structural Equation ModellingMeasurement models, structural models and mediation Open → also: cheatsheet · practice · pre session
10 Causal Inference (1/2)Counterfactuals, randomised trials, matching and propensity scores Open → also: cheatsheet · practice · pre session
11 Causal Inference (2/2)Difference-in-differences and instrumental variables Open → also: cheatsheet · practice · pre session
12 What the Twelve Weeks Were ForThe closing address: what the term established, why it matters in private and public organisations, and Europe 2031 read with the tools you now have Open → also: cheatsheet
13 One More Thing: PCA and Factor AnalysisAfter the course, for self-study: dimension reduction, and when to use which Open → also: cheatsheet · practice · pre session