Descriptive statistics are the cornerstone of data analysis. This method provides the researcher with the tools necessary to understand the statistics on hand. It offers insight into the ...

Let me be upfront: this post will contain statistics. Not the fun, pithy kind like “60 percent of statistics are made up on the spot,” but actual cold, hard statistical practices. Joking aside, I’m ...

We propose a way to formalize the relationship between descriptive analysis and structural estimation. A researcher reports an estimate ĉ of a structural quantity of interest c that is exactly or ...