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Record W2883296948

Do Shipping Volumes Signal an End of the Recession

2009· article· en· W2883296948 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Paul W. Bauer, Caroline Herrell

Bibliographic record

VenueEconomic Trends · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicGlobal trade and economics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRecessionEconomicsQuarter (Canadian coin)Great DepressionDepression (economics)Economic indicatorPoint (geometry)Turning pointSeasonal adjustmentReal gross domestic productEnd pointKeynesian economicsMacroeconomicsHistoryPeriod (music)Computer scienceMathematics
DOInot available

Abstract

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The advance estimate of 3.5 percent for GDP growth in the third quarter of 2009 is welcome news, and it suggests that the longest recession since the Great Depression and the deepest since the 1950s is likely to have ended at some point around the middle of the year. This isn’t to say that the widespread pain experienced by households and firms is over, just that the economy has at least stopped contracting and is starting to grow. Economic observers try to glean evidence of turning points from data series that come out more frequently and with less of a lag than GDP and employment estimates. Transportation data are good candidates, as many series are published monthly, relatively soon after the close of the month. Equally important for this purpose is the fact that they should be highly correlated with economic activity.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.029
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.065
Threshold uncertainty score0.218

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.029
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.005
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0040.005
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0650.036

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.052
GPT teacher head0.233
Teacher spread0.181 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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