Welcome
What are you trying to do?
Data I already have in economics, finance and accounting.
Your path
Create a study to hold it
A study is the container. You are not obliged to collect anything through ZStat.
Import the file
CSV for now, on the Data page. Leading zeros survive, and a column that is mostly numeric with a few words stays text rather than becoming numbers with holes in it.
Find out what you should be running
The guide for your field names the question in your own words and the procedure that answers it.
Analyse
Every result is stored with the digest of the data behind it, so you can prove later which version produced which figure.
What people in your field ask
Assemble the panel - choose the specification with a test, not an assertion - check the residuals - report the diagnostics.
- I have several firms over several years. Fixed or random effects?panel regression
- What determines profitability?ols regression
- Does the effect run through something else?mediation
- Predicting a yes or no - default, adoption, failure?logistic regression
- Forecasting revenue or demand?arima
Watch for: Adopting fixed effects with no Hausman statistic. That asserts a modelling decision rather than making one.
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