These remarks supplement the paper of Andreoli and Zoli from a practical view-point, that is, of a data analyst who wishes to compare distributions of socio-economic endowments regarding their inequality.

Eine breit gefächerte Einführung in die deskriptive sowie, nach Bereitstellung der notwendigen Begriffe aus der Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie, in einige Verfahren der schliessenden Statistik, nahezu ohne mathematische Beweisführungen. Rezension: Zielgruppe sind hier alle empirischen...

Nonlinear autoregressive Markov regime-switching models are intuitive and frequently proposed time series approaches for the modelling of electricity spot prices. In this paper such models are compared to an ordinary linear autoregressive model with regard to their forecast performance. The...

A new procedure, called DD-procedure, is developed to solve the problem of classifying d-dimensional objects into q ≥ 2 classes. The procedure is completely nonparametric; it uses q-dimensional depth plots and a very efficient algorithm for discrimination analysis in the depth space [0, 1]q ....