I’ve just now realized, after writing five and a half pages of literatuer review, that my review is far too long. Perhaps if I had not been stiffed on relevant data sets by the Metropolitan Police Department , the exessive length of my lit. review would be a little easier to cope with.
If only there [...]
Author Archive for ephraim
I am waiting with bated breath for two independent variables VITAL to properly running my regression and it is driving me crazy!
This is the only thing holding me back from finishing my paper. To be perfectly honest, every second I spend blogging about my dilemma is a second I could be spending trying to get [...]
Without a solid understanding of differential calculus, creating a solid econometric model of your own can be extremely difficult. I feel like simply finding a principal or intermediate level economic theory or law, and using it as a spring board is not enough. Luckily, there is always the option of a theoretical paper!
If [...]
I just finished my second critical review, and I’m a little bit frustrated with the cacophony of econometric terms that are sleuthing through my Grey Matter. Hopefully, in time, I will understand why a binary variable is necessary for contextualizing dummy variables. Or, who knows…maybe it isn’t?
On a completley different note. I woke up this [...]
After some light research, I have found some good full text sources pertaining to the supreme court ruling which has altered Washington DC’s provisions on handgun ownership and operation. I know this doesn’t sound like economic literature…and it isn’t. My tentative research question asks: Will the lift of Washington’s firearm litigation positively effect [...]
Carl Post = f(time, data, Greenlawconomics, price, quantity, √Carl)
Published by December 5th, 2007 in Uncategorized. 2 CommentsI’m sitting in my bedroom wondering how I am going to run regressions on the effect of Gangster Rap record sales and publishing on domestic purchase of handguns by inner-city youth already susceptible to a life of crime. Kind of a project in and of itself, but I though it might spice up my [...]
Up until this point, scholarly sources have provided me with literary stepping stones for my research, relatively important facts, and tiny morsels of data. However, none of said scholarly journals or data bases have accounts for music industry product, sales, or value. We live in the information age, but I’m beginning to wonder exactly how [...]
Outline
Introduction
- Short history of the Record industry
- Music Industry Tutorial*
- Current evaluation of Record Industry value*
- Brief evaluation of Music Technology
- [...]
Tastes & Preferences
Published by October 11th, 2007 in Research Journal and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsI am currently analyzing data from the RIAA(Recording Industry Association of America) and other firms showing total industry value changes over the past ten years. Here is a link to RIAA unit-value data: http://www.riaa.com/keystatistics.php
This data is self-explanatory and elemental to my research, but standing alone the data is only a component of the theory I’m [...]
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