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The Centroid Method - Statistical Method of Territorial Profile Factor Analysis

Balu, Mariana-Elena Voineagu - 2007

The regional statistics provides the quantitative methods requested to a right knowledge of phenomena variability in territorial profile, as well as, the substantiation of regional strategies and policies of economic development. Also, the regional statistics supplies the explicit analyses of...

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Alternative Methods of Unit Nonresponse Weighting Adjustments : An Application from the 2003 Survey of Small Business Finances

Hazelwood, Lieu N. - 2007

The 2003 Survey of Small Business Finances (SSBF) screening interview had significant unit nonresponse and therefore some type of nonresponse adjustment was deemed necessary. The approach used in the 2003 survey differed from that used in previous surveys. The current paper examines the impact...

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Fama-French 1992 Redux with Robust Statistics

Green, Christopher G - 2017

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A Note on the Theory of Applied Statistics

Kenett, Ron S. - 2018

This note is a sketch of what could be the basis for a theory of applied statistics. Such a theory is needed to help … new data structures require new statistical models. Eliciting the components of a theory of applied statistics is a …

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Implementing Algorithms to Measure Common Statistics

McCrary, Stuart - 2015

This manuscript is program documentation for three ways to calculate the mean, variance, skewness, kurtosis, covariance, correlation, regression parameters and other regression statistics. The traditional or "textbook" method passes through the data once to calculate the mean then accesses the...

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Statistical Inference in Economics, 1920-1965 : Changes in Meaning and Practice

Biddle, Jeff - 2016

probability theory as a source of measures and procedures to be used in statistical inference. Haavelmo and the econometricians … from probability theory, but the arguments they offered in defense of this approach were not always responsive to the … from probability theory were an almost essential part of empirical research in economics. I close the paper with some …

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Statistics and common sense

Hanaki, Nobuyuki; Magnus, Jan R.; Yoo, Donghoon - 2021

Common sense is a dynamic concept and it is natural that our (statistical) common sense lags behind the development of statistical science. What is not so easy to understand is why common sense lags behind as much as it does. We conduct a survey among Japanese students and try to understand why...

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Absolute poverty measurement with minimum food needs : a new inverse method for advanced economies

Menyhért, Bálint - 2022

This paper explores the feasibility of calculating absolute poverty lines on the basis of minimum food expenditures in developed countries. It makes three important contributions. First, it demonstrates that standard statistical methods used in the developing world deliver either inadequate...

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Using large samples in econometrics

MacKinnon, James G. - 2021

As I document using evidence from a journal data repository that I manage, the datasets used in empirical work are getting larger. When we use very large datasets, it can be dangerous to rely on standard methods for statistical inference. In addition, we need to worry about computational issues....

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Statistics and common sense

Hanaki, Nobuyuki; Magnus, Jan R.; Yoo, Donghoon - 2021

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