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- Villa avoid landmark as City crumble at home again
- MANCHESTER, England AFP — Aston Villa banished one undesired statistic and avoided another on Saturday with a 2-0 away win at Manchester City. Before this mid-table match-up Martin O'Neill's side were the only team among Premiership's top 14 not to be in double figures for games won. But...
- Research articles 2007-04-28
- Crime and punishment in Major League Baseball: the case of the designated hitter and hit batters
- I. INTRODUCTION Are you seriously going to throw at somebody when you're facing Randy Johnson? --Curt Schilling (1) In 1973, amid waning fan interest in baseball, the American League AL of Major League Baseball MLB instituted the designated hitter rule as an experiment. The stated goal of...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- TO WHAT EXTENT ARE PUBLIC SAVINGS OFFSET BY PRIVATE SAVINGS IN THE OECD?
- Abstract The substitutability of private and public savings has implications for the effectiveness of fiscal policy. Using annual data for the period 1970-2004, this study re-examines long-run relationships between OECD private and public savings rates. However, unlike previous work, panel data unit root and cointegration tests are employed. The results...
- Research articles 2006-10-01
- Top cop's protege is shot; says gunman a stranger
- Even the cloak of the police commissioner's guidance couldn't stop the top cop's protege from becoming another statistic. There he was, Sylvester Johnson's one-time star pupil, lying in a hospital bed yesterday with an intravenous needle pumping morphine into his veins to numb the pain of a bullet wound...
- Research articles 2006-03-30
- Data devotee.(The Business of Life)(Professor of Economics, Austan Goolsbee)(Brief article)
- Byline: Christina Le Beau Austan Goolsbee, 36, the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, graduated from MIT and Yale and taught class on his wedding day wearing a tux. What a brainiac reads: ...
- Research articles 2006-03-27
- Running from the pack
- The big "101 Critical Days of Summer" clock had barely started ticking when I became an early statistic. As is my custom, I had read the summer safety articles and messages from the senior leaders, cautioning on the dangers of summer and encouraging one and all to "be safe." Somewhere...
- Research articles 2005-09-01
- Testing quasi-independence of failure and truncation times via conditional Kendall's tau.(failure time)(left-truncation time)(right-truncation time)
- Truncated survival data arise when the failure time is observed only if it falls within a subject-specific truncating set. Most analysis methods rely on the key assumption of quasi-independence, that is, factorization of the joint density of failure and truncation times into a product proportional to the individual densities in...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- Sequential Monte Carlo methods for statistical analysis of tables.
- We describe a sequential importance sampling SIS procedure for analyzing two-way zero-one or contingency tables with fixed marginal sums. An essential feature of the new method is that it samples the columns of the table progressively according to certain special distributions. Our method produces Monte Carlo samples that are remarkably...
- Research articles 2005-03-01
- Euro zone role in UK trade is exaggerated.
- By Allister Heath, The Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 10--A key statistic from the Bank of England used to measure the value of sterling against the UK's top trading partners exaggerates the importance of the euro, a report from...
- Research articles 2004-10-10
- Explaining international variations in self-employment: evidence from a panel of OECD countries
- 1. Introduction In recent years there has been growing awareness of the importance of self-employment for growth and employment creation. Governments around the world are increasingly implementing policies designed to promote self-employment (see, e.g., OECD 1998). Yet relatively little is known about the determinants of self-employment, especially the effects...
- Research articles 2004-10-01
- Ronaldo shows Robben a clean pair of heels
- LISBON AFP ? Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson rarely has a good word to say about international football but even the fiery Scot might have raised a glass to his teenage Portuguese winger Cristiano Ronaldo as he scored in his side's 2-1 Euro 2004 semi-final win over the Netherlands....
- Research articles 2004-06-30
- Cows at home.(Brief Article)
- Cow slaughter has dropped since Jan. 1, and the first-quarter total could be 13% below year-ago levels. That statistic overstates the decline in domestic cow slaughter, however, because of the ban on importing live cattle from Canada, says Ron Plain, University of Missouri Extension economist. "After...
- Research articles 2004-03-22
- Auditor reputation and the insurance hypothesis: the information content of disclosures of financial distress of a major accounting firm
- It is obvious that the rapid demise of Andersen LLP Limited Liability Partnership has significant implications for its clients. However, even less dramatic events affecting an auditor may influence the client and its management. For example, evidence supports the assertion that certain events impacting a CPA firm are reflected in...
- Research articles 2004-03-22
- Anticipations of monetary policy in financial markets.
- THROUGH ADJUSTING the supply of reserves, a central bank can effectively control a single asset price--the short-term interest rate. In forward-looking financial markets, however, expectations regarding the future path of short-term rates can importantly influence longer-term interest rates and stock prices, which have a considerable effect on private spending decisions....
- Research articles 2003-12-01
- Aleisha Cramer Rose stats
- Season Statistics Year GMs STs GLs AST PTs 2000 24 65 7 13...
- Research articles 2003-10-31
- Science Magazine Recommends that the AEI Investigate Pro-Gun Author John Lott About Allegations that Lott Falsified his Research
- PHILADELPHIA, June 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- John Lott, a pro-gun researcher at the American Enterprise Institute AEI, and advocate of concealed handguns laws, has come under fire for failing to produce evidence of some of his research. Science Magazine has suggested that the American Enterprise Institute conduct an investigation into...
- Research articles 2003-06-02
- The timing and information content of auditors' exhibit letters relating to auditor changes.
- INTRODUCTION Policymakers have always considered auditor changes to be important events requiring detailed and timely disclosures. The arrangements for monitoring the disclosure of auditor changes require reporting by both the auditor and the client, and consist of three requirements. First, the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC requires that...
- Research articles 2002-03-01
- The economy. (Numbers).
- * Orders for durable goods from American factories rose 2% during December, the U.S. Commerce Department reports. The statistic, higher than expected, sparked hope that the American economy is pulling out of its slump. Durable-goods orders for items which normally last three years or more fell...
- Research articles 2002-02-18
- Structural tests in additive regression.(statistical modeling methods)(Statistical Data Included)
- Wolfgang Hardle is Professor, Humboldt-Universitait zu Berlin, Institut fur Statistik und Okonometrie, D-10178 Berlin, Germany. Stefan Sperlich is Assistant Professor, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Departamento de Estadistica y Econometria, c/ Madrid 126, E-28903 Getafe, Madrid. Vladimir Spokoiny is Professor, Weierstrass-Institute, 10117 Berlin, Germany. The authors thank an anonymous referee...
- Research articles 2001-12-01
- New on the Web
- TELECOMWORLDWIRE-C 1994-9 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A new feature has bee added to the Nasdaq-Amex Newsroom Web site that will allow visitors to view statistic measuring the performance of The Nasdaq Stock Market and the American Stock Exchange. The new feature, listed under the 'Indexes and Statistics' link will provide...
- Research articles 1999-07-27
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