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Re: st: OLS pooled regression


From   Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: OLS pooled regression
Date   Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:08:32 +0200

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:41 AM, DE SOUZA Eric  wrote:
> However, since the number of time periods in your data is very small, you cannot rely on consistency.

Seems to me a case for John Tukey (1986, p.74-75): "The combination of
some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a
reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data."

John Tukey (1986), "Sunset salvo". The American Statistician 40(1):72-76.


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