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I am stumped in finding a suitable data set for a research project
funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. This work is performed by
interns from the Economics program at the University of California San Diego. This
is one in a sequence of research projects.
This phase dives deeper into commerce and therefore the data
is more difficult to find. We have successfully constructed and automated
the reserach methodologies and technologies (for example using WINBUGS, Stata, SPSS,
Statistica and other processes) for working at the level of regulatory required
financial data for a public firm. The new phase is to work within a firm to
increase the firms performance in fulfilling its value proposition. The criteria
for our dataset is a multi-step process of value adding steps (“transformational
engines with linear or geometric relationships between inputs and outputs) that
produce an outcome of economic value to the external stakeholders.
Consider this a process to make a product.
What we need is a dataset that is not proprietary
information (public research project) with concurrent data on inputs and outputs
for each value adding step and the final (dependent variable) output.
This all sounds more complicated than it is.
I have searched all the web available repositories for data
sets such as STATLib and they have very static data sets such as how to relate radiation
to cancer but none have anything on work processes with multiple value adding
steps.
Appreciate any suggestions. Best wishes.
Dave Lehmann Ph.D., P.E., CIRM