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Feasibility paper: Unemployment causes crime

Crime is my dependent variable and Unemployment is my independent variable. I also have homelessness, layoffs, and poverty as other independent variables. The following DATA DESCRIPTION

For each of the variables, at least 30 observations of cross-sectional data must be obtained. Thus for the final research paper, a data matrix that is at least 30 rows by numbers of variables must be presented.

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This solution helps explore the link between unemployment and crime within the context of statistics.

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The assignment is asking you to collect data on incidences of crimes. It is asking you to collect (from a reliable web source, police records etc) at least 30 samples of data. (This could be typically crime data from 30 cities or 30 states). If you ...

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