Ask HN: How to Hire an Econometrician?

5 points by Coax 16 years ago | 3 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?

gtani 16 years 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.

Coax 16 years ago | |

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

barry-cotter 16 years 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?