# Sample construction

`kaal:entity:sample-construction`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 4 claims that carry the concept tag `sample-construction`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

4 claims across 4 works, 2014 to 2016.

**2014**

- [2389416-012](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2389416-012) [empirical/evidenced] -- The working sample consists of 2,145 hedge funds drawn from Morningstar data on roughly 7,000 hedge funds and more than 3,700 advisers, retaining only funds reporting complete monthly earnings and AUM from January to October 2012.
  > Due to missing data and the presence of outliers, we extract a sample of 2,145 hedge funds that report all the monthly earnings data and monthly AUM in each period from January to October 2012.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Barbara Luppi, Sandra Paterlini, Did the Dodd-Frank Act Impact Hedge Fund Performance (2014). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2389416
- [2389423-023](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2389423-023) [empirical/evidenced] -- The analysis uses data from a 2012 survey study of a population of 1,264 private fund advisers registered before the SEC's registration effective date for private funds of March 30, 2012.
  > The data used for the analysis in this article was collected in the context of a 2012 survey study (Kaal [2013]) with a population of 1,264 private fund advisers, registered before the SEC's registration effective date for private funds, March 30, 2012.
  Wulf A. Kaal, The Impact of Dodd-Frank Act Compliance Cost on the Hedge Fund Industry (2014). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2389423

**2015**

- [2629451-009](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2629451-009) [empirical/evidenced] -- The study's hand-selected dataset covers all institutions that executed N/DPAs from 1993 to 2015, a population of 330 agreements, of which 94 involved publicly traded firms usable for stock price tests.
  > Our hand-selected dataset comprises all institutions that executed N/DPAs from 1993 to 2015 (N=330) and are publicly traded (N=94).
  Wulf A. Kaal, Timothy Lacine, Stock Price Response to Non- and Deferred Prosecution Agreements (2015). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2629451

**2016**

- [2811729-017](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2811729-017) [definitional/evidenced] -- The authors operationalize unconstrained status by binary coding eleven prospectus characteristics and treating a score of nine or better as unconstrained, producing a final study sample of 84 funds out of 114 funds identified in the Morningstar Nontraditional Bond index.
  > of purely unconstrained mutual funds (i.e., those which were the focus of this study) (N=84) included only those UMFs that scored a "9" or better out of a total of 114 funds identified in the Morningstar Nontraditional Bond index.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Unconstrained Mutual Funds and Retail Investor Protection (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2811729

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