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Toward Greater Reproducibility Of Undergraduate Behavioral Science Research, Bruce Evan Blaine
Toward Greater Reproducibility Of Undergraduate Behavioral Science Research, Bruce Evan Blaine
Mathematical and Computing Sciences Faculty/Staff Publications
Reproducibility crises have arisen in psychology and other behavioral sciences, spurring efforts to ensure research findings are credible and replicable. Although reforms are occurring at professional levels in terms of new publication parameters and open science initiatives, the credibility and reproducibility of undergraduate research deserves attention. Undergraduate behavioral science research projects that rely on small convenience samples of participants, overuse hypothesis testing for drawing meaning from data, and engage in opaque statistical computing are vulnerable to producing nonreproducible findings. These vulnerabilities are reviewed, and practical recommendations for improving the credibility and reproducibility of undergraduate behavioral science research are offered.
Historical Study Of The Relationship Between The Federal Funds Rate And The Inflation Rate, Aaron Wilkins
Historical Study Of The Relationship Between The Federal Funds Rate And The Inflation Rate, Aaron Wilkins
Undergraduate External Publications
It is believed that in order to control high inflation rates, the Federal Reserve Bank (“the Fed”) increases the federal funds rate and when the inflation rate gets low, the Fed takes the opposite approach. (The federal funds rate is a rate of interest that banks charge each other to lend funds and stay above the reserve requirement, set by the government.) This project examines the relationship between the federal funds rate and the inflation rate. Sixty-five years of historical inflation rates and federal funds rates were used as the basis for this exploration. Because a time lag between the …