Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ709836
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005-Jan-1
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0485
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Oh No! I Got the Wrong Sign! What Should I Do?
Kennedy, Peter E.
Journal of Economic Education, v36 n1 p77 Win 2005
Getting a "wrong" sign in empirical work is a common phenomenon. Remarkably, econometrics textbooks provide very little information to practitioners on how this problem can arise. The author exposits a long list of ways in which a wrong sign can occur and how it might be corrected.
Descriptors: Economics, Economic Research, Research Methodology, Economic Impact, Data Analysis, Error of Measurement, Evaluation Methods
Heldref Publications, Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, 1319 Eighteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802. Web site: http://www.heldref.org.
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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