Explore what economic sunspots are, how they influence financial markets independently of fundamentals, and their fascinating ...

Background Suicide rates have increased over the last couple of decades globally, particularly in the United States and among populations with lower economic status who present at safety-net ...

Medical research studies have a number of possible designs. A strong research project closely ties the research questions/hypotheses to the methodology to be used, the variables to be measured or ...

Dependent variables change based on other inputs in financial models, affecting investment outcomes. Independent variables like earnings affect dependent variables, influencing metrics like P/E ratios ...

Abstract: In probability theory, variance is a device to measure dispersion of random variable from its mean. In order to explain complex uncertain random variable,variance and pseudo-variance are ...

Abstract: Moments of continuous random variables admitting a probability density function are studied. We show that, under certain assumptions, the moments of a random variable can be characterized in ...

I think the Dynamic Variables section could be enhanced by providing examples of how to create a new "Bruno" variable from a random one and including a link to ...

The use of factual/counterfactual comparisons—that is, estimating the difference between what actually happened and what would have happened absent an event—is a fundamental tool in the economists’ ...