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Ask HN: How to Hire an Econometrician?

5 pointsCoax16y ago3 comments

Our startup would like to hire an econometrician. Resources abound for people who want to hire developers, but there seem to be few venues for hiring mathematicians and statisticians.

We're looking for someone with an statistics or econometrics masters degree, so we are contacting the appropriate departments in certain schools

Beyond contacting schools, can the HN community suggest how we can go about finding an econometrician?

3 comments

gtani16y ago

Try meetups or user's groups for R, SAS, SPSS, data mining, etc. My local R group meetings are really interesting and info-packed.

CoaxOP16y ago

Interesting, great suggestion. I'll look into that. Thank you.

barry-cotter16y ago

I'm thinking of doing an econometrics Masters, could I pick your brain on whether it's a good idea or could you point me to any resources that would give me a better idea if this was a good idea? E.g. by the end of an econometrics Masters I'd be able to perform statistical analysis on anything, like genetic data?

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