Valuation Engineer Research Labs

Short papers and working notes between issues of the Valuation Engineer Journal

Working papers, studies and code from the editor of the Valuation Engineer Journal. They are published as the work develops, to inform readers and to try ideas out separately before they are gathered into fuller articles in the Journal. They are not peer reviewed; the Journal is the version of record.

The Foundations Department as a Dependency Map

Seventeen entries, eighteen dependencies, and the structures they define

Foundations

ontology

knowledge base

An engineering drawing of the Journal’s Foundations entries (Vol. 1 Nos. 1–2): which entry depends on which, and where each concept is defined, generated from the department’s knowledge base.

Oct 5, 2026

Property Variables Most Subject to Endogeneity

Foundations

endogeneity

regression

RCA

The property and market variables most likely to be endogenous in a residential sales model, grouped by cause, with the size and direction of each bias measured in a simulated market whose true price-setting is known; and what that means, under the Residual Constraint Approach, for adjustments, for hypothetical conditions, and for the residual.

Oct 4, 2026

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The Foundations Department as a Dependency Map

Property Variables Most Subject to Endogeneity