Authors:Wolfgang Haerdle, Leopold Simar,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: analysis, statistical, multivariate, applied
Number of Pages: 458
Published: 2007-09-10
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 3540722432
ISBN-13: 9783540722434

Most of the observable phenomena in the empirical sciences are of a multivariate nature.In financial studies, assets in stock markets are observed simultaneously and their joint development is analyzed to better understand general tendencies and to track indices. In medicine recorded observations of subjects in different locations are the basis of reliable diagnoses and medication. In quantitative marketing consumer preferences are collected in order to construct models of consumer behavior. The underlying theoretical structure of these and many other quantitative studies of applied sciences

Authors:Wolfgang Härdle, Leopold Simar,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: analysis, statistical, multivariate, applied
Number of Pages: 486
Published: 2003-09-10
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3540030794
ISBN-13: 9783540030799

Most of the observable phenomena in the empirical sciences are of multivariate nature. This book presents the tools and concepts of multivariate data analysis with a strong focus on applications. The text is devided into three parts. The first part is devoted to graphical techniques describing the distributions of the involved variables. The second part deals with multivariate random variables and presents from a theoretical point of view distributions, estimators and tests for various practical situations. The last part covers mulivariate techniques and introduces the reader into the wide bas

Authors:Cinzia Daraio, Leopold Simar,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: efficiency, applications, studies, productivity, methodology, analysis, nonparametric, methods, advanced, robust
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2007-03-26
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 0387351558
ISBN-13: 9780387351551

Providing a systematic and comprehensive treatment of recent developments in efficiency analysis, this readable book makes available an intuitive yet rigorous presentation of advanced nonparametric and robust methods. This flexible toolbox can be used in theories based on the neoclassical theory of production and its alternatives, including evolutionary theories. The methods are complemented by empirical analysis of three different economic fields: scientific research, mutual funds industry and the insurance sector. The research demonstrates the utility of the toolbox for a wide range of econo

Authors:Aldo Leopold, Luna B. Leopold,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: book, galaxy, river, round
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 1972-03-30
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0195015630
ISBN-13: 9780195015638

To those who know the charm of Aldo Leopold’s writing in A Sand County Almanac, this collection from his journals and essays will be a new delight. The journal entries included here were written in camp during his many field trips--hunting, fishing, and exploring--and they indicate the source of ideas on land ethics found in his longer essays. They reflect as well two long canoe trips in Canada and a sojourn in Mexico, where Leopold hunted deer with bow and arrow. The essays presented here are culled from the more contemplative notes which were still in manuscript form at the time of L

Authors:Leopold Müller, Leopold Müller, L. Broili,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: mechanics, centre, mechanical, sciences, international, solids, course, department, rock, cism
Number of Pages: 395
Published: 1982-01-27
List price: $73.95
ISBN-10: 3211813012
ISBN-13: 9783211813010

Author: Les Leopold
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Keywords: jobs, destroyed, pensions, prosperity, mdash, finance, fantasy, america, wall, street, game, looting
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-06-02
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1603582053
ISBN-13: 9781603582056

"I loved this book. A worms’-eye dissection of the Wall Street crisis from a very sharp and very knowledgeable labor economist. Here’s hoping that before the Washington consensus gets set in stone, policymakers will read it and reflect on the havoc the masters of the universe have wreaked on ordinary people."--Charles Morris, author of The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash and Money, Greed, and Risk: Why Financial Crises and Crashes HappenHow could the best and brightest (and most highly paid) in finance crash the global economy and then

Author: Aldo Leopold
Publisher: Ballantine Book
Keywords: essays, reflections, outdoor, almanac, county, sand
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1986-12-12
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0345345053
ISBN-13: 9780345345059

Published in 1949, shortly after the author’s death, A Sand County Almanac is a classic of nature writing, widely cited as one of the most influential nature books ever published. Writing from the vantage of his summer shack along the banks of the Wisconsin River, Leopold mixes essay, polemic, and memoir in his book’s pages. In one famous episode, he writes of killing a female wolf early in his career as a forest ranger, coming upon his victim just as she was dying, "in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes.... I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought tha