Oh no! I got the wrong sign! What should I do?'

被引：26

作者：

Kennedy, PE ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Simon Fraser Univ, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada

来源：

JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION | 2005年 / 36卷 / 01期

关键词：

data mining; false significance; misspecification;

D O I：

10.3200/JECE.36.1.77-92

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Getting a "wrong" sign in empirical work is a common phenomenon. Remarkably, econometrics textbooks provide very little information to practitioners on how this problem can arise. The author exposits a long list of ways in which a wrong sign can occur and how it might be corrected.

引用

页码：77 / 92

页数：16

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