time indicator of GDP?

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Discerning which type of goal you have is critical for:
* **Choosing methods:** Distinct approaches are required to achieve different goals.
* **Interpreting results:** Mistaking one goal for another can lead your audience to make very bad decisions.


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name: DGP

# The Data Generating Process

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# The Data Generating Process

What's shared across all goals of data analysis:

We start with an **outcome variable** called `\(Y\)`. We want to know some t