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From a research question to a paper and its dossier

A template, your own data and literature, a model, and the steps where the run pauses for you. The walk-through below simulates the run; the commands it prints are the ones that start it for real. Get started has the whole path, from install to publish.

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Research questionA rough question is fine. e2er question --draft sharpens it against your data and library and never starts a run.

Template

Empirical study In place
Question and data in, empirical paper out. e2er's default. Empirical study, pre-registered In place
The empirical template with the researcher in it: a design review, a pre-registration frozen before any estimation, and a review of the draft. Event study in finance In place
A fork of the empirical template for abnormal-return event studies around announcements: it checks the estimation window and overlapping events before estimation. Replication of a published study In place
Computational reproduction of a published study from its Zenodo replication package: fetch and verify the package, plan, run it in a Docker sandbox, and compare every reported number with what the rerun produced. Descriptive data study In place
Question and data in, a checked description of the data out: the sample and its filters, summary statistics, distributions and associations, figures re-read from the data. A data check stops the run on missing units, duplicate rows, unexplained gaps or missing coverage before anything is computed. Map a research field In place
Map a research field: retrieve its papers from OpenAlex, compute the main path of its citation network (SPC weights, key routes), test it on alternative boundaries, and draw the field by year in lanes named as questions, with a reading list, network exports and a short field review. Policy evaluation (difference-in-differences) In place
What a policy changed, by difference-in-differences: the design (treatment timing, comparison group, estimator) is checked against the data before estimation, and the event study, pre-trends test and placebo or sensitivity analysis after it. Spatial analysis In place
How a variable varies across regions or places: maps from the data and recorded boundaries, Moran's I with permutation inference recomputed by e2er, optional local clusters (LISA), with the boundaries' source, CRS and weights checked before the analysis. Systematic review and meta-analysis In place
A systematic review with a random-effects meta-analysis, following PRISMA 2020: a protocol fixed before the search, a recorded OpenAlex search, screening with a reason for every exclusion, open-access full texts, extraction in which every number is traced to its page and quote, a meta-analysis by e2er's own code (tau^2, I^2, prediction interval, Egger's test, trim and fill, leave-one-out) or a plain narrative synthesis when too few studies can be pooled, and a PRISMA flow diagram. Text analysis In place
A corpus in, counts and models of its language out: term frequencies, key terms (log-likelihood with the log ratio), collocations, dictionary and sentiment measures with a hand-checked sample, topic models with their stability across seeds, change over time. The corpus design and preprocessing are fixed before the corpus is built; e2er recounts every number from the corpus. Time series and forecasting In place
A series in, its trend, seasonality, models and forecasts out. The forecast setup and its hold-out are frozen before any model is fitted; every model is judged on the hold-out against naive baselines, with errors recomputed by e2er and forecasts given with intervals. Optional pre-registration of the setup. Literature In place
Turns a folder of PDFs or a Zotero library into verified claims. Qualitative coding Planned
Codes interview or document corpora with several specialists and reports agreement with human coders. Survey and experiment design Planned
Designs surveys and experiments and pre-registers them before data collection. Paper review Planned
Six reviewer specialists each score a paper from one angle, in parallel, after a number check and a citation check; their weighted average is the internal quality review score. coarse: AI referee report Planned
An open-source multi-agent system that reviews an academic paper like a referee and writes a report with overall feedback and detailed comments that quote the paper. Theory construction (E2ET theory lab) In place · runs in E2ET
Cross-disciplinary IS theory generation via bisociation: 60 disciplinary personas across 8 tiers in an iterative loop that converges on propositions, constructs and a research agenda. Staggered difference-in-differences (economics) Example
A fork of the empirical template for policy evaluations with staggered adoption: it adds a pre-trend check and requires a heterogeneity-robust estimator when treatment timing varies. Regression discontinuity for platform policies (information systems) Example
A fork of the empirical template for thresholds set by platforms, such as rating cut-offs or eligibility rules: it adds a manipulation test at the cut-off and a bandwidth sensitivity check. Shift-share instrumental variables (economics) Example
A fork of the empirical template for shift-share designs: it adds first-stage strength diagnostics and a balance check on exposure shares. Grounded theory with the Gioia method Example
Builds a grounded model from interviews by moving from informant-centric concepts to researcher-centric themes and aggregate dimensions, following Gioia, Corley and Hamilton (2013). Theory construction as disciplined imagination Example
Generates many heterogeneous conjectures about a problem and selects among them with criteria declared in advance, following Weick (1989).

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Before the first run, install e2er and set it up as on the Install page.