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Urban Start-up Agglomeration and Venture Capital Investment (view source)
Revision as of 10:01, 4 September 2019
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A cubic was a mediocre fit to this data, giving an R2 of 83% but with lots of deviation concentrated right around the local minimum ({-0.0224722, {x -> 0.446655}} [https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=minimum+-2.3595x%5E3+%2B+4.3803x%5E2+-+2.5008x+%2B+0.4309], point of inflection and local maximum. A quartic had an R2 of 90% at around x=0.44 (6.408 x^4 - 15.176 x^3 + 12.592 x^2 - 4.3046 x + 0.517≈0.00825284 at x≈0.440275). I tried a quintic and it had inflection points are x=0.33, 0.55, and 0.82, as well as local maxima at 0.39 and 0.90. Visually there seems to be something going on in the 20% to 40% uncovered range too, perhaps a bifurcation of results, which might be due to rounding issues.
====Reasonable Exclusions=====
We started by including all U.S. cities that received at least $10m of growth venture capital in a year between 1980 and 2017 (inclusive). This gave us a list of 200 cities. However, we still have a lot of city-years with low number of startups. What is a reasonable number of startups to analyze agglomeration? Three locations (which is at least three startups) is the bare minimum required for one hull without excluding outliers.
===Image Analysis===
