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What are you trying to do?
A study for my organisation in economics, finance and accounting.
Your path
Create the study and set the discipline
The discipline decides what every later page shows you.
Decide whether people are involved
If your data is about machines, facilities or finances rather than people, declare no human subjects and the data protection conditions do not apply. The declaration is checked.
Collect or import
Collect through ZStat with consent and withdrawal, or bring a CSV, Excel or SPSS file you already have.
Analyse and compare
Between sites, periods, groups or programmes - with the effect size, because significance alone does not tell a manager whether it matters.
Produce the assurance pack
Generated from your own installation, for a funder or a data protection officer.
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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