Assignment:
Discussion Forum:
What descriptive statistics, if any, did the author(s) make available to the reader? If the author(s) did not make any descriptive statistics on their data available to the reader, what descriptive statistics might you have suggested that they present to their readers?
Do you think the descriptive statistics presented by the author(s) provide sufficient information about the central tendencies, dispersion, and shape of their data for you to have confidence in the appropriateness of the data for the research approach and results obtained? Why or why not?
The answers should be based on the papers,
Mack, J. G. (2021). Fraud as a Byproduct of Disaster: Relief Aid Fraud and the COVID-19 Pandemic (Doctoral dissertation, Utica College).
Fuller, David L., B. Ravikumar, and Yuzhe Zhang. 2015. "Unemployment Insurance Fraud and Optimal Monitoring." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 7 (2): 249-90.
Readings:
Unemployment Insurance Fraud and Optimal Monitoring
By David L. Fuller, B. Ravikumar, and Yuzhe Zhang