Sentences with phrase «of econometricians»

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

Not exact matches

A study conducted by Mexican econometricians and researchers of the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM) on the impact of the tax on drinks with added sugars found that the measure failed in reducing calorie consumption and tackling overweight and obesity.

The one downside to having a slew of first - rate econometricians engaged in edu - research nowadays is that in their eagerness for outcomes to analyze, they tend to care less about the caliber of the numbers than whether they can count them.

And econometricians have to make some simplifying assumptions if they're going to work their magic — one of which is to assume that reading and math gains are valid and reliable measures of student learning.

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.

As it is with politics today, many educational researchers who define themselves as aligned with the disciplines of educational finance or educational econometricians are substantively more in favor of VAMs than those who align more with the more general disciplines of educational research and educational measurement, methods, and statistics, in general.

This is very much in line with current trends to combine different tests to measure value - added given statisticians and (particularly in the universe of VAMs) econometricians» «natural predilections» to find (and force) solutions to what they see as very rational and practical problems.

These cases have tested a chief selling point (pardon [or underscore] the business reference) of VAMs: that they will effectuate, for example, teacher termination with greater ease because nobody besides the advanced statisticians and econometricians can argue with their numbers derived.

His investment career commenced at the Bank of England in 1990 as an econometrician.

That which is applied to economics is... but there are those of us who are statisticians, pure and applied mathematicians, and yes, practicioners of the physical sciences, and we not only know the math, we know how to apply it to physical sciences better than econometricians.

One of the most persistent among them is Professor Richard Tol, an econometrician who teaches at the University of Sussex.

Myself I am an experimenter and econometrician, but my subject matter is decision theory and even I know more about the theory side of this than Weitzman seems to.

While there was a model grounded in atmospheric physics, the inference was entirely grounded on application of statistical models to time series and an econometrician can spot most non stationary series at a glance.

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.

Fred: «Yes, but you get lots of spurious correlations with time - series data, which is why econometricians test for «Granger causality».

The most determined academic critic has been Dr Richard Tol, an econometrician at the University of Sussex.

PS — Hey, VS, I predict that 4 to 6 years from now you will see a huge new croup of freshly graduated econometricians / statisticians.

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.