This paper focuses on the incentives by governments to manipulate statistics, not on techniques how to do so. I wish to … for three reasons: (1) Manipulating statistics undermines the very essence of data collection; (2) Falsified statistics … debate in economics journals on identification and potential bias in econometric models assume that the data has not been …

, mathematics, statistics, and machine learning. Econometric methods have been applied in asset pricing, corporate finance …

is a low-level task, not appropriate for scientific attention. This volume of the Handbook of Computational Statistics …