Authors:Michael Grossman, Chee-Ruey Hsieh,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Keywords: countries, academia, developing, studies, asian, economies, lessons, economic, substance, abuse, experience, developed, analysis
Number of Pages: 447
Published: 2001-08
List price: $165.00
ISBN-10: 184064625X
ISBN-13: 9781840646252

Currently developed countries pay much more attention to harmfully addictive substances than developing countries. However, the experience of developed countries is very relevant to the developing world since substance abuse is likely to impose a continually increasing burden of disease in this region in the near future. This book extends the frontiers of research on the economics of substance use and abuse in a variety of extremely significant ways. It focuses on the determinants and consequences of the consumption of cigarettes, alcohol, betel quid, and illicit drugs in the United States,

Author: Ruey S. Tsay
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: series, probability, statistics, wiley, analysis, time, financial
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2005-08-30
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0471690740
ISBN-13: 9780471690740

Provides statistical tools and techniques needed to understand today’s financial markets The Second Edition of this critically acclaimed text provides a comprehensive and systematic introduction to financial econometric models and their applications in modeling and predicting financial time series data. This latest edition continues to emphasize empirical financial data and focuses on real-world examples. Following this approach, readers will master key aspects of financial time series, including volatility modeling, neural network applications, market microstructure and high-frequency

Author: Ruey S. Tsay
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: series, time, financial, analysis
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2001-10-15
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0471415448
ISBN-13: 9780471415442

Fundamental topics and new methods in time series analysis Analysis of Financial Time Series provides a comprehensive and systematic introduction to financial econometric models and their application to modeling and prediction of financial time series data. It utilizes real-world examples and real financial data throughout the book to apply the models and methods described. The author begins with basic characteristics of financial time series data before covering three main topics: analysis and application of univariate financial time series; the return series of multiple assets; and Bay

Author: Ruey S. Tsay
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: series, probability, statistics, wiley, analysis, time, financial
Number of Pages: 712
Published: 2010-08-30
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0470414359
ISBN-13: 9780470414354

This book provides a broad, mature, and systematic introduction to current financial econometric models and their applications to modeling and prediction of financial time series data. It utilizes real-world examples and real financial data throughout the book to apply the models and methods described. The author begins with basic characteristics of financial time series data before covering three main topics: Analysis and application of univariate financial time series The return series of multiple assets Bayesian inference in finance methods Key featu

Authors:Ruey J. Sung, M.R. Lauer,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: arrhythmias, cardiac, management, approaches, fundamental
Number of Pages: 804
Published: 2000-11-15
List price: $399.00
ISBN-10: 0792365593
ISBN-13: 9780792365594

This new edition provides up-to-date comprehensive coverage of the rapidly evolving field of clinical cardiac electrophysiology. It is designed for physicians, cardiologists, cardiac electrophysiologists, and allied professionals practising or learning the speciality of clinical cardiac electrophysiology. This textbook - written entirely by two practising authorities in the field - offers a cohesive and comprehensive summary of the principles and practice of clinical cardiac electrophysiology. The authors emphasize the clinical approach to the patient and provide a fundamental, yet t

Author: Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
Keywords: pragmatics, amp, new, anthology, organization, consciousness, motivation, affect, caldron
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2004-06-22
List price: $89.83
ISBN-10: 9027251363
ISBN-13: 9789027251367

This text features studies by prominent neuroscientists, psychologists and philosophers working towards a coherent framework for understanding emotion and its contribution to the functioning of consciousness in general, as an aspect of self-organizing, embodied subjects. Distinguishing consciousness from unconscious information processing hinges on the role of motivating emotions in all conscious modalities, and how emotional brain processes interact with those traditionally associated with cognitive function.

Authors:D. Y. Hsieh, S. P. Ho,
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: fluids, stability, wave
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1994-10
List price: $61.00
ISBN-10: 9810218702
ISBN-13: 9789810218706

This textbook covers the topics of sound waves, water waves and stability problems in fluids. It also touches upon the subject of chaos in relation to stability problems. The emphasis is on the understanding of essential features of the subject matter thus complicated details are omitted.