… base is clearly less predictive of forecast bias (see Figure 2). As the bottom panel of Table 2 shows, the quadratic relationship does not always hold when controlling for growth rate. The …
… Mid-level managers said that the best information comes from street informants. They agreed that such information is generally based on individual cases and not compiled in a data …
… Our exploration of these two questions is empirically based; we analyze forecast utility through a "value-added" criterion proposed by Swanson and Tayman (1995) and called PRE, or …
… first-order moving average term but no autoregressive term; it is identified as ARIMA(0,2,1). … average parameters but does not have a constant term; it is identified as ARIMA(0,2,2) and is …
… "Tayman's story transcends traditional histories and takes flight as one of the most riveting documents of Hawai'i history to emerge in years. Its voice is that of the many people who were …
This chapter deals with three separate estimation topics related by the fact that they are not readily accessible from census data, which in the US and the other countries to which this …
… We use “density” because the Espenshade-Tayman (1982) method for translating … -Tayman method (1982) here is not new. In addition to being employed by Espenshade and Tayman (…
… Lastly, the court believed that the e-mails were relevant to the expert's opinion and should be disclosed under Rule 26(a)(2)(B). Although Indiana's federal courts have not produced an …
… could not have directly assembled CCRs if we used 5 year age groups and the data were taken from observations only 2 years apart. Situations where the width of the age group is not …
… These guidelines are intended as a summary of the material presented throughout the book and as a road map guiding the analyst through the projection process. They will not provide …