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# Econometric Process
1. Question
2. Model
'do police reduce crime?'
![[Excalidraw/Drawing 2021-09-01 14.07.57.excalidraw.md]]
When there's a systematic relationship between epsilons and x, data can be misleading.
E is for expectation/average
Crucial assumption:
$E[\epsilon|\textit{condition}] = 0$ for all x
The Intuition is that other factors influencing y are not systematically related to x.
This assumption is often suspect.
![[Conditional Expectations]]
3. Data
Data Types:
- Cross-Sectional: each obs different 'individual' ie person, city, group
- Time Series: each observation different time period ie nanosecond, minute, day, week, year
- about a single entitiy
- Panel: combination of Time Series and Cross-Sectional data types. Each observation corresponds to an individual at some moment in time.
4. Estimation
![[Bivariate (simple) Regression Estimation]]