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title: panel_first_difference
description: Learn how to perform a first-difference estimate for panel data using
  this Python function. Understand the parameters and the object returned by the function.
keywords:
- panel data
- first-difference estimate
- perform
- parameters
- data
- dataset
- target column
- exogenous variables
- fit model
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Perform a first-difference estimate for panel data.

Parameters
----------
data: List[Data]
Input dataset.
y_column: str
Target column.
x_columns: str
List of columns to use as exogenous variables.

Returns
-------
OBBject[Dict]
OBBject with the fit model returned

```python wordwrap

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## Parameters

This function does not take standardized parameters.

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## Returns

This function does not return a standardized model

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