Questions tagged [cross-section]
Cross section data is drawn at a single point in time as a sample of many different units from a certain population.
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Choice of model/strategy for multiple regression analysis
I am doing an econometrics course where I am to do a regression analysis on some firm data.
I want to analyze some shipping data of frozen goods to predict the temperature of the shipped goods at ...
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Multicollinearity when estimating a gravity model
everyone!
I am estimating a gravity model in order to analyze the impacts of tighter environmental regulations on international trade. More specifically, I am analyzing Brazil's trade flow.
My (...
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Combining cross sectional and time series into pooled regression
Is there a way to run both cross sectional data and time series data in a single regression?
For example, the code below generates a 5x3 panel data set (5 days of observations for 3 categorical ...
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Methods for analyzing “cross-frequency” tables?
I am looking for a statistical method that is suitable for the problem: which goods in my shop are most frequently bought together, and which aren’t?
For my commodities, I can make a table like this ...
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Using ML algorithms like decision trees, support vector machines, neural networks for panel data [duplicate]
Someone has already asked here and here on this but no one has answered yet in terms of predictive modelling.
If I have a panel dataset of customers, their demographics and their order amount in ...
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Survival analysis without observing survival times [duplicate]
I have a cross-sectional dataset in which, for each participant, I know their total exposure time and whether they experienced an event during their exposure time (1/0). However, I do not observe the ...
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Panel Regression vs. XGBoost Time Series Features
Panel regression is a technique to merge longitudinal and cross sectional data together in a linear model. Linear model doesnt work well since by bringing time series features into the model, it can ...
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Implementation of Hypothesis test on R² for regressions in cross-sectional setup
I am confused by the paper of Kan et al. (2013 - "Pricing Model Performance and the Two-Pass Cross-Sectional Regression Methodology") which proposes the execution of hypothesis tests on R² of ...
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Significance of a variable - Regression Model alternatives
I am looking at cross-sectional data. I have a dependent variable and a set of independent variables.
Specifically, I want to assess whether a binary variable has a significant influence on the ...
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Cross Validation with Panel Data of Variable Length
I have a problem of wanting to predict $y_t$ from $x_t$ and some lags given a series of $\{(y_t, x_t)\}_{t=1}^T$. To build my prediction algorithm I was hoping to use cross validation techniques such ...
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Forecast using Cross Sectional data? Correlation vs Causality
I try to predict the revenue of a store given its characteristics.
Is it possible to establish a parsimonious model that can predict at a different point of time without establishing a logical or ...
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Panel vs 2-pass regression
Consider the following data generating process. For simplicity, assume all quantities are scalars with $Y_{it}$, $X_{it}$ and $G_i$ observable for all $i\in \{1..N\}$ and $t\in \{1..T\}$ where $N\gg T$...
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analytical technique for experimental research with one independent variable; three moderator variables
The experimental research that I want to do has one independent variable and three moderator variables. The independent variable X is treatment which consists of three categories: 1. control group; 2. ...
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Statistical significance of co-efficient derived through several regressions for panel data
For the panel data that I have, I'm trying to run multiple one-variable regressions (y=ax+e) across time periods - i.e. one for each time period.
Naturally, the a's that I find from each regression ...
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longitudinal vs. cross-sectional vs. panel analyses
I would appreciate some help distinguishing between cross-sectional, longitudinal, and panel analyses.
We surveyed people at T1 and surveyed these same people at T2 (four weeks later).
At T1, we ...
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Fitting Beta Distribution Parameters to Y conditional on X
I have a bi-variate data set where Y is in [0,1]. X is some measure of intensity and in this example is (0,~200) though there is no hard upper bound. X has a strong positive skew but I am not ...
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Family fixed/random effects cross section
What is the appropriate Stata command for a within family comparison in cross section dataset? Basically i hear a lot about such comparisons, siblings comparisons or within mother comparison…. Still i ...
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Regression using different data sets
Using a multiple regression, do all observations have to be from the same dataset? For example, assume a survey is conducted with some likert scale questions along with other predominantly categorical ...
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Issues when converting panel to cross-section? (i.e. $(y_{it},x_{it}) \rightarrow (y_{i},x_{i})$)
Let's say we've got a panel data set of individuals $i$ over time $t$, with their inputs $x_{it}$ and outputs $y_{it}$. We want to relate inputs to outputs, but the problem is that the timing of ...
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Analysing panel data - looking for hypothesized mediation and moderation effects
Good afternoon,
I'd like to ask you for some help in finding a (hopefully citable) way of analyzing panel data when looking for mediation and moderation effects.
Problem I have is that my measured ...
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Cross-Sectional Dependence Test in Panel-Data Models
I did cross section Dependence test in Eviews for panel data (EGLS Model) and Breusch-Pagan LM test, Pesaran scaled LM test, Bias-corrected scaled LM test confirmed the cross-section dependece but ...
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Question regarding FamaMcBeth regression
I'm new here and hope you can help me with three questions I'm having in regard to the FamaMcBeth regression methodology.
What is the advantage of using firm specific returns instead of an aggregate ...
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Cross sectional regression in excel [closed]
Hi Can someone please let me know whether cross sectional regression is possible in Excel?
I'm trying to evaluate CAPM from MacBeth regression.
I need to run the cross sectional regression, but ...
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Why clustering residuals for localisation makes coefficient estimates to become significant?
I have a cross section dataset for a sample of individual firms (n=874) located in a Norwegian county. I test with a probit model, the probability for the firms to adopt a certain technology X, using ...
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regression with percentage DV and multiple dummy IV
I am running a market analysis about e-mail responses for my marketing class.
I have the following data entries:
Observations: 400 different sequences of e-mails where sent to different target ...
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Constrained Linear Regression with multiple factors in R [closed]
I am trying to figure out how to run a simple linear model with two factor variables as regressors without the intercept. In particular, I would need to write a code to replicate the Barra Fundamental ...
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NPS daily survey data
I have daily surveys sent to users of several of my organization´s services, the surveys consists only on NPS question (How likely would recommend X? on a 0 to 10 scale), number of respondents vary by ...
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Choosing the right stats textbook - graduate level
I want to do some self studying over the course of the summer. However, I find it hard to choose a good textbook amongst the plethora of possibilities.
I study political science at graduate level. So ...
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How to account for missing observations in multivariate regression?
My research concerns the eBay feedback mechanism. users have a "feedback score" (total positive reviews less negative reviews) and a "feedback percentage
" $\frac{positives}{positives+negatives}$.
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Is it permissible to aggregate results from multiple cross sectional regressions?
Lets consider the following approach:
(1) We estimate a simple linear regression model y = b0 + b1*x + error. The input data in our model estimation shall be:
y = 1 month stock returns (cross ...
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What's the difference between an ecological study and a cross-sectional study?
What's the difference between an ecological study and a cross-sectional study? And could you provide an example?
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case-control study with cross-sectional data
I have a General Practitioner dataset for several thousand patients, taken at a single snapshot in time (let's call it time X). Patients that have died since the database was set up are therefore not ...
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Does the sum of correlations make sense?
For the descriptive purposes, I am looking at the (Pearson) correlation coefficients between 6 variables over 4 periods separately. Thus, I computed the correlation between 15 pairs. I am doing a ...
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“Matching” with cross-sectional studies: are the samples dependent?
I am comparing the prevalence of disease in participants of two separate cross-sectional surveys. One survey is from a group of prisoners and the other is from the general population.
To account for ...
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Combining cross-sectional data with panel data
Let's say I want to regress crop yield as a function of rainfall and temperature.
I collected data across 20 locations and 10 years and construct a model regressing yield on rainfall and temperature ...
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Appropriate econometric model for repeated cross sectionals
This is a question about repeated cross sectional and panel data analysis. I have scoured through related questions on this site and Stack Overflow but haven’t quite found what I am looking for.
Data ...
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Difference between Multivariate Time Series data and Panel Data
Recently I got mix response on the difference between multivariate time series data and panel data. I completely understand the difference between cross sectional data, time series data and panel data....
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Run a regression with data from different measurements
I have a population $N$, that can be divided into several samples. 1 sample, $S$, was taken out from $N$, let's say a piece of paper from a page of a manuscript; this piece of paper is divided into ...
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What does the term “Cross-section” mean in the context of empirical finance
For instance, there is a paper entitled:
"Volatility Risk in the Cross‐Section of Stock Returns"
What does it mean to imply by the Volatility Risk in the cross-section of stock returns?
I know what ...
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Hierarchical panel data: Fixed effects vs. hierarchical linear models vs. mixed models [duplicate]
I have problems about understanding the intuition and differences about when to apply fixed effects, hierarchical linear models (multilevel models) and hierarchical mixed models. I will try to explain ...
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Crossed Vs nested factors in clinical study design
I'm conducting a clinical survey which has a really complex experimental design and I have doubts about what factors need to be considered as nested and which crossed. The study include 30 subjects, ...
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An Auto-correlated Cross-section?
When there is a time-series $\left\{X_1,\cdots,X_T\right\}$, one can compute sample auto-correlations using the data. For example, $\widehat{\mathrm{Cov}}\left[X_t,X_{t-1}\right]=\frac{1}{T-1}\sum_{t=...
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durbinWatsonTest() in R for non time-series data
I am trying to understand whether the Durbin-Watson test is meaningful at all when applied to regression data that have no temporal order (eg. ...
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Multinomial logit model in cross sectional time series
I'm working with a cross sectional time series database where my dependent variable is a set of unordered categories (hence multinomial logit).
It's highly likely my errors will be correlated over ...
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What does N-day correlation mean?
I have a stock price data for each day for stocks A and B for 5 years. I am asked to calculate: 1-week, 1-month, 3-month and the 1-year correlation between them.
I am puzzled as to the definition. Do ...
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Adjust for one factor in time series analysis
I would like to analyze whether blood pressure is higher in winter than in summer through time series analysis: in particular, I would like to use repeated/pooled cross-sectional time series analysis ...
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How to fix serial correlation in a cross sectional data set
I am doing my thesis at the moment and I needed to check the BLUE assumptions for my data set. I am doing my thesis on trying to explain IPO underpricing and my data set consists of 100 companies who ...
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prediction with cross sectional data
I have learned linear regression for a long time but obviously not good enough so this question may seem naive.
Let's say using historical data from time 0 to time T we construct the linear ...
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Picking models to explain between-group and over time variation of panel data
I have a four-period panel dataset with quite a few variables in country aggregates. I am trying to answer two questions:
Firstly, I need to identify variables which do the most to explain variation ...
