Statistical tools for nonlinear regression

a practical guide with S-PLUS an R examples

This book presents methods for analyzing data using parametric nonlinear regression models. Using examples from experiments in agronomy and biochemistry, it shows how to apply the methods. Aimed at scientists who are not familiar with statistical theory, it concentrates on presenting the methods in an ...

Semiparametric regression

Semiparametric regression is concerned with the flexible incorporation of non-linear functional relationships in regression analyses. Any application area that benefits from regression analysis can also benefit from semiparametric regression. Assuming only a basic familiarity with ordinary parametric regression, this user-friendly book explains the techniques and ...

Data analysis and graphics using R

an example-based approach

Modern statistical software systems provide sophisticated tools for researchers who need to manipulate and display their data. Using such systems requires training both in the software itself and in the statistical methods that it relies on. Concentrating on the freely available R system, this book ...

Regression analysis

a constructive critique

Regression Analysis: A Constructive Critique identifies a wide variety of problems with regression analysis as it is commonly used and then provides a number of ways in which practice could be improved. Regression is most useful for data reduction, leading to relatively simple but rich ...

Linear regression

The book covers the basic theory of linear regression models and presents a comprehensive survey of different estimation techniques as alternatives and complements to least squares estimation. The relationship between different estimators is clearly described and categories of estimators are worked out in detail. Proofs ...

Análisis de datos comerciales

Este libro está dirigido tanto a las personas sin formación en el análisis de datos comerciales como a las que ya se dedican a ello en mayor o menor grado, y buscan una referencia sencilla de todo el proceso y los temas vinculados. El autor ...

The contigent valuation method in health care

an economic evaluation of Alzheimer´s disease

The Contingent Valuation Method in Health Care is offered as a contribution to improving instruments of political decision making in health care. At a fundamental level, it is about methodological aspects of the contingent valuation method. It gives a holistic view of applying the contingent ...

Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces in probability and statistics

Since the first papers laying its foundations as a subfield of Complex Analysis the theory of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS) has proved to be a powerful tool in many fields of Pure and Applied Mathematics, and in particular in Probability and Statistics. Nowadays, the ...

Análisis multivariado

un manual para investigadores

Las técnicas de análisis multivariado son útiles para investigadores que desarrollan su labor en casi cualquier ámbito de la ciencia, pero, especialmente, para quienes trabajan en el marco de las ciencias del comportamiento. Este manual trata de exponer un amplio conjunto de esas técnicas desde ...

Métodos cuantitavos para la toma de deciciones

En este libro se trata el uso de modelos cuantitavos en la resolución de problemas de gestión y administración de sistemas complejos, con especial énfasis en la toma de decisiones. Ha sido escrito para dos tipos de usuarios: para los directivos que pueden sacar provecho ...

Dynamic economic models in discrete time

theory and empirical applications

This new book will be welcomed by econometricians and students of econometrics everywhere. Introducing discrete time modelling techniques and bridging the gap between economics and econometric literature, this ambitious book is sure to be an invaluable resource for all those to whom the terms unit ...

Guide to econometrics

This fifth edition updates the contents and references throughout, while retaining the basic structure and flavour of earlier editions. New chapters on panel data and applied econometrics expand the text's coverage, while other chapters are significantly revised. With these new revisions, the text should ...

Financial econometrics

methods and models

This text, an overview of contemporary topics related to the modelling of financial time series, is set against a backdrop of rapid expansions of interest in both the models themselves and the financial problems to which they are applied. Table of Contents Stochastic models and ...

Econometrics and the philosophy of economics

theory-data confrontations in economics

As most econometricians will readily agree, the data used in applied econometrics seldom provide accurate measurements for the pertinent theory's variables. Here, Bernt Stigum offers the first systematic and theoretically sound way of accounting for such inaccuracies. He and a distinguished group of contributors ...

Introducción a la econometría

ÍNDICE: Tema 1. Introducción a la econometría Tema 2. Ajuste de un modelo de regresión simple y múltiple Tema 3. Una introducción al enfoque de componentes inobservados Tema 4. La medición de teorías económicas basadas en la descomposión periódica de los ciclos empíricos Tema 5 ...

Contributions to modern econometrics

from data analysis to economic policy

The field of econometrics has gone through remarkable changes during the last decades of the 20th century - the earlier focus on testing macroeconomic theories has been widened considerably. It has turned into a discipline concerned with the development and application of statistical methods for any ...

Introduction to econometrics

The intuitive approach of Introduction to Econometrics uses interesting applications to motivate students to learn theory and to help them understand the application of the theory. Students come away with a thorough understanding of econometics and of the relationships on which people, businesses, and governments ...

Managerial economics

theory and practice

Managerial economics is the application of economic theory and quantitative methods (mathematics and statistics) to the managerial decision-making process. This book will appeal to students with limited prior training in economics and quantitative methods. It assumes that students will have had mathematics training at least ...

Understanding economic forecasts

Historically, the theory of forecasting that underpinned actual practice in economics has been based on two key assumptions?-that the model was a good representation of the economy and that the structure of the economy would remain relatively unchanged. In reality, forecast models are mis- ...

Dynamic economics

quantitative methods and applications

This book is an effective, concise text for students and researchers that combines the tools of dynamic programming with numerical techniques and simulation-based econometric methods. Doing so, it bridges the traditional gap between theoretical and empirical research and offers an integrated framework for studying applied ...