Sentences with phrase «do econometricians»

Do econometricians talk about Simpson's Paradox a lot?

Not exact matches

I want a system which champions and rewards a robust vision of good teaching and that doesn't settle for a narrow, distorted conception because that's what econometricians can measure.

Although Kane does also cite some published studies authored by others, again, in support of VAMs, the studies Kane cites are primarily / only authored by econometricians (e.g., Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff) and, accordingly, largely unrepresentative of the larger literature surrounding VAMs.

But the time series math is the province of the econometricians, who as far as I know don't build ideology into their math.

Ignoring for example, that the behavior of group of sub prime mortgages bundled into CDOs would most likely not be independent of each other set investors up with a bunch of crappy investments that were more likely to perform poorly in an economic downturn... the covariance of the underlying mortgages increased risk, not decreased it, and one didn't have to be econometrician in order to anticipate this outcome... Ex post selection of data (without clear rational protocols, established before data are collected and analyzed) is unforgivable, and should be intolerable.

I'm no econometrician, but this study does not pass the laugh test.

In that sense Jan Magnus did a better analysis, but he was stupid enough to take the wrong temperature dataset (what is it with these econometricians?).

As a former econometrician and a management consultant who has done a lot of market research, I actually know a thing or two about survey research.