Design of mixture experiments using Bayesian D-optimality

Journal of Quality Technology;  October 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......distribution of information throughout the factor space. The study investigates three and four...order terms, improve the coverage of the factor space, and still have very good variance properties...The natural constraints (1) reduce the factor space to a regular (q - 1)-dimensional ...

Modeling cyclical asymmetries in European imports.

International Advances in Economic Research;  May 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......transition that assumes nonlinearities are generated by idiosyncratic components specific to foreign trade, and exogenous transition...pure STARs would be an indication that they are due to idiosyncratic components specific to foreign trade. The paper is organized as...

The location of trait emotional intelligence in personality factor space.

British Journal of Psychology;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......question is where it belongs within established personality hierarchies. Where is trait EI located in Eysenckian and Big Five factor space? Locating trait EI in personality space is important, not least because it will allow us to connect the construct to the...

Overcoming the human factor. (space flights have taught the Soviets to...

U.S. News & World Report;  May 16, 1988 ;     700+ words ...Record-setting flights have taught the Soviets how to live in space They may not have the most-sophisticated rocket motors or the most-reliable on-board computers. But the Soviets are well on their way to mastering the most-complex spacecraft component of all: The human body. The crippling toll

Using a Farmer's Beta for Improved Estimation of Expected Yields

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......strategy followed by farmers. A new estimator for mean yields based on the decomposition of farm yields into systemic and idiosyncratic components is proposed, which could lead to improved rate-making and reduce adverse selection. Key words: actual production history...

Information contagion and bank herding.(Report)

Journal of Money, Credit & Banking;  February 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......performance of each bank's loan returns is also publicly observed. However, the exact realization of systematic and idiosyncratic components is not observed by the economic agents. Ex ante, banks choose whether to lend to similar industries and thereby maintain...

(book reviews)

American Political Science Review;  September 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......analyzed in their totality, the enduring theme generated is that things are complicated (or that individual cases have idiosyncratic components). A wide selection of factors undermine mechanistic applications of Chicago-style models of the Stigler/Peltzman/Becker...

Black Beauties.(ViewPoint)

Test & Measurement World;  August 1, 2004 ;     650 words ......goods can get away with choosing barrel-of-nails capacitors, but audiophile-grade equipment demands better--or at least idiosyncratic--components. To investigate capacitor-induced anomalies, prolific Electronics World author Cyril Bateman designed and constructed...

Cyclical asymmetries in unemployment rates: international evidence.

International Advances in Economic Research;  August 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......that the model with exogenous transition displays the best performance. On the contrary, if nonlinearities are due to idiosyncratic components specific to the labor market, then one should find that standard STARs are better in terms of their adequacy to the...

Diversity of the superfamily of phloem lectins (phloem protein 2) in...

Plant Physiology;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......cytoplasmic proteins, collectively called P-protein. Ultrastructural investigations originally defined P-proteins as idiosyncratic components of the structural architecture of sieve elements (Cronshaw and Esau, 1967). Depending upon the plant species, P-proteins...

A portfolio view of banking with interest and noninterest activities.

Journal of Money, Credit & Banking;  August 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......at market value or a desire to artificially smooth earnings. Three, total risk can be decomposed into systematic and idiosyncratic components, which is useful from an investor's perspective. Finally, the portfolio view provides a familiar framework for interpreting...

Clay effigy representations of the bear and Mishipishu: Algonquian...

Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, MCJA;  April 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......precontact archaeological assemblages from the upper Great Lakes. When such objects occur, they do so as isolated or idiosyncratic components of larger material collections. All such reported items are zoomorphic; no human representations are known, with the...

Equity transmission mechanisms from Asia to Australia: interdependence or...

Australian Journal of Management;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......structure is developed which provides a convenient decomposition of the volatility of equity returns into systematic and idiosyncratic components, as well as contagion. This framework is shown to be consistent with the definition of contagion adopted by Masson...

Disney's free ride for kids; OVERSEAS HOLIDAY EXTRA.(Features)

The Mirror (London, England);  January 27, 1996 ;     212 words ...DISNEYLAND Paris is going from strength to strength - thanks in part to the fear factor. Space Mountain - a spectacular pounds 65 million white-knuckle ride - has become the Park's number one attraction. Close behind is heart-stoppi...

Applying the bootstrap to the multivariate case: Bootstrap...

Behavior Research Methods;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......multivariate case. When conducting bootstrap component, or factor, analysis, resampling results must be located in a common factor space before summary statistics for each estimated parameter can be computed. The present article describes a strategy for applying...