epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2019-09-02 | Author:David Spiegelhalter

I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the ‘Law of Frequency of Error’. The law would have ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-30 | Author:Sam Bullard & Sarah Watt & Kaylyn Swankoski & Azhar Iqbal & John Silvia [Sam Bullard]

epub |eng | 2015-01-19 | Author:Larry Pasavento [Larry Pasavento]

Superconjunction/Eclipse Figure 6.7 shows a visual representation of a superconjunction with orbs. A superconjunction occurs when there is an alignment of longitudinal angle and declination. In other words, one planet ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-28 | Author:David Spiegelhalter

He was right – it really is an extraordinary law of nature. How Does This Theory Help Us Work Out the Accuracy of Our Estimates? All this theory is fine ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-04-07 | Author:Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

My personal favorite study by Raj Chetty’s team, which had access to that massive collection of IRS data, was their inquiry into why some people cheat on their taxes while ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:John H. Johnson

AMERICA’S PASTIME If you’re a sports fan, you’ve probably seen and heard more than your fair share of cherry-picked statistics. Imagine this: it’s 1988, and you’re watching game one of ...

epub |eng | | Author:Victor M. Panaretos

such that T is not a constant function. Assume that the parameter space is an open set (recall that, among others, this implies that the function γ(⋅) is twice differentiable). ...

epub |eng | 2016-01-13 | Author:Adams, Abi & Clarke, Damian & Quinn, Simon [Adams, Abi]

6.4 Stochastic Dynamic Programming Time for some shocks! Returning to our household microenterprise, let’s imagine that the evolution of capital is subject to a stochastic shock. The transition equation now ...

epub |eng | 2014-11-29 | Author:Henderson, Daniel J. & Parmeter, Christopher F. [Henderson, Daniel J.]

Ordered The kernel we just described ignores any natural ordering in the discrete variable. It is likely in applied work that we will also have variables that possess a natural ...

epub |eng | | Author:Phoebus J. Dhrymes

ii.If A is of σ-finite measure, but μ(B) = 0 does not hold, then we can only assert that where the sup is taken over all bounded measurable functions, g, ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-12-11 | Author:Hayashi, Fumio [Hayashi, Fumio]

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Joshua Angrist

Philip’s journey was personal as well as intellectual. He worked for many years as a teacher at obscure Lombard College in Galesburg, Illinois. Lombard College failed to survive the Great ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2005-10-14 | Author:Tim Harford [Harford, Tim]

A modern day example is the “Grolsch” method of picking shares. I met an investor who told me he had bought lots of shares in the brewer, Grolsch, because he’d ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-11-06 | Author:Matthew Syed

The Placebo Effect in Sports In 1952 Norman Vincent Peale, a Protestant preacher, wrote what was to become arguably the single most important work of popular psychology of the twentieth ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-01 | Author:Coyle, Diane

THE EXPLOSION OF VARIETY A seemingly separate issue, also of increasing salience, is that the way GDP is measured makes it impossible to capture fully the effect of innovation. Innovation ...