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Statistics
Jan - May 2010
Economics 105
Regression Analysis Topics (Deadline for approval is 4 p.m., Friday,April 2nd)
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Student* (* = approved) |
Dependent Variable (Y) | Independent Variable (X1) | Independent Variable (X2) |
| *Zimmerman | PGA Tour earnings in 2009 | GIR | Driving distance |
| *Welchman | Finishing position of european football club | team salary | yellow cards |
| *Taylor | Murder rate by U.S. state in 2007 | Death penalty dummy | Poverty rate |
| *Shevock | Mortality rate by U.S. state | Doctors per capita | income |
| *Schwartz | % of state population that smokes (U.S. states) | cigarette excise tax | % graduating from high school |
| *Sargent | U.S. consumption of gasoline, U.S. states | Automobile registrations | Obesity rate by state |
| Ross | Salary 5 years after HS | Years of foreign lang study | experience/educ/teen hours worked |
| *Peitz | NYSE composite index daily return | cloud cover in NYC | FTSE All-World index daily return |
| *Overcash | MLB attendance (avg per game by team) | city population | new stadium dummy/age dummies |
| *Muller | Measure of health (BRFSS data) | income | education |
| *Morgan | Weekday boardings at Denver light rail station | pop density | avg household income |
| *Mayo | Price of one-night hotel stay (Holiday Inn) | Distance from CBD | median city income or other measure |
| *Martin | Lottery ticket sales per capita by state | Median household income | Education* |
| *Marshall | Home runs in 2009 | Avg home runs per game before 2009 | Contract year dummy (1 = yes) |
| *Luscombe | U.S. Crime rate, 1959 - 2009 | Welfare spending (as % GDP) | Employment to pop ratio |
| *Lunsford | NFL attendance | Avg ticket price | Playoff dummy |
| *Kondray | Obesity measure for an individual | Alcohol consumption | Smoking measure |
| *Justus | Winning % for MLB (or NFL?) teams 2001 & 2002 | salary inequality | OPS |
| *Hedley | Meat consumption per capita by country | GDP per capita | Agricultural output |
| *Frankel | violent crime rate (incidents per 100,000 people) Eco 205 data possibly | shall-carry law | average income |
| *Evans | Body Mass Inex | employment measure | health insurance dummy |
| *English | % democratic vote in 2008 presidential election by state | relative campaign spending per capita by candidate X | education level by state |
| *Droll | % of income spent on eating out for a sample of households from Consumer Expenditure Survey | household income | occupation/employment status of adult members of the household |
| *Chikowski | Salary ten years after NBA draft | Draft order | NBA productivity |
| *Bust | Motor vehicle fatalities by U.S. state | # of vehicles | education level |
| *Boulding | Religiosity at state level | median income | educational attainment |
| *Berman | MLB players salary | OBP | another measure |
| *Antieri | Age at first marriage for females (GSS data) | years of education | rural/urban dummy |
| *Alani | Fertility rate for all countries (with data) | Infant mortality rate | Female adult literacy rate |