multproc carries out multiple-test procedures, taking as input a list of p-values and an uncorrected critical p-value, and calculating a corrected overall critical pvalue for rejection of null hypotheses. These procedures define a conÞdence region for a set-valued parameter, namely the set of...

What is common in granular materials and quantum mechanics? They can be regarded as weakly nonlocal fluids, with different microstructures and properties. What is the essence of the difference and from where does it come? This is investigated from a uniform thermodynamic point of view.

Christopher Sims is one of the leaders in time-series econometrics and empirical macroeconomics and is well known for introducing the VAR approach to econometrics and macroeconomic modelling. Sims' main contribution to empirical macroeconomics was to show how macro-econometric modeling should be...