Análisis cuantitativo de la actividad turística

En la toma de decisiones en el ámbito turístico es tan necesario disponer de información fiable como de conocer las formas de analizar esta información. En este contexto, es imprescindible el uso de técnicas cuantitativas que permitan resumir e interpretar de manera específica los datos ...

Análisis multivariable para las Ciencias Sociales

Este manual no es un compendio estadístico o matemático, sino una serie de enfoques fundamentales orientados a la aplicación a problemas de naturaleza socioeconómica. El denominador común en el ibro, es la descripción de un modelo o técnica cuantitativa, ilustrada por una aplicación a problemas ...

Statistical process control

Statistical process control is a tool which enables both manufacturers and suppliers to achieve control of product quality by means of the application of statistical methods in the controlling process. This book gives the foundations of good quality management and process control, including an explanation ...

Partial identification of probability distributions

Sample data alone never suffice to draw conclusions about populations. Inference always requires assumptions about the population and sampling process. Statistical theory has revealed much about how strength of assumptions affects the precision of point estimates, but has had much less to say about how ...

Statistical analysis of management data

Statistical Analysis of Management Data is especially designed to provide doctoral students with a theoretical knowledge of the basic concepts underlying the most important multivariate techniques and with an overview of actual applications in various fields. The content herein addresses both the underlying mathematics and ...

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 ...

Applied multivariate statistical analysis

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...