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Effects of Measurement Errors on Population Estimates from Samples Generated from a Stratified Population through Systematic Sampling Technique

OUKO, Abel; KIPKOECH, Cheruiyot W.; KIRIMI, Emily - In: Expert Journal of Economics 2 (2014) 3, pp. 120-132

systematic sampling technique. In each stratum a sample was picked at random. The findings of this work indicated that systematic … errors affected the accuracy of the estimates by overestimating both the population total and the population variance. Random …

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Data Editing and Imputation in Business Surveys Using “R”

Romascanu, Elena - In: Romanian Statistical Review 62 (2014) 2, pp. 129-146

Purpose – Missing data are a recurring problem that can cause bias or lead to inefficient analyses. The objective of this paper is a direct comparison between the two statistical software features R and SPSS, in order to take full advantage of the existing automated methods for data editing...

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Effects of measurement errors on population estimates from samples generated from a stratified population through systematic sampling technique

Ouko, Abel - In: Expert journal of economics 2 (2014) 3, pp. 120-132

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Can the Fed Predict the State of the Economy?

Sinclair, Tara M.; Joutz, Fred; Stekler, Herman O. - Department of Economics, George Washington University - 2009

Recent research has documented that the Federal Reserve produces systematic errors in forecasting inflation, real GDP … growth, and the unemployment rate, even though these forecasts are unbiased. We show that these systematic errors reveal that …

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Can the Fed Predict the State of the Economy?

Sinclair, Tara; Joutz, Frederick L. - Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP), … - 2009

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Are 'unbiased' forecasts really unbiased? Another look at the Fed forecasts

Sinclair, Tara M.; Joutz, Fred; Stekler, Herman O. - Department of Economics, George Washington University - 2008

This paper reconciles contradictory findings obtained from forecast evaluations: the existence of systematic errors and … the failure to reject rationality in the presence of such errors. Systematic errors in one economic state may offset the …

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Excess sensitivity of consumption using micro data in the UK

Yu, Ge - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The impact of the subjective variables specific to individual financial well being on economic outcomes is considered whether they are able to predict the growth of household consumption. Subjective variables include more information that is difficult to be identified or valued in previous...

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Type I Spurious Regression in Econometrics

Chiarella, Carl; Gao, S. - Finance Discipline Group, Business School - 2002

ignored system dynamics will become the systematic errors in regression equations. Differencing does not preserve the … underlying relation among time series in regression due to systematic errors. This paper will outline how regression of …

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