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Measuring the statistical capacity of nations

Cameron, Grant J.; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Dinc, Mustafa; … - 2019

The international development community has used the World Bank’s Statistical Capacity Index since its inception in 2004. The Sustainable Development Goals create new challenges for national statistical systems to produce high-quality and internationally comparable data. This paper reviews...

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Measuring the statistical capacity of nations

Cameron, Grant J.; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Dinc, Mustafa; … - 2020

The international development community has used the World Bank's Statistical Capacity Index since its inception in 2004. The Sustainable Development Goals create new challenges for national statistical systems to produce high-quality and internationally comparable data. This paper reviews...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316940

Yxilon : a client-server based statistical environment

Härdle, Wolfgang (contributor); Klinke, Sigbert (contributor) - 2007

Along with many others, we agree that a modern education in statistics needs to incorporate the practical analysis of … the teaching of statistics includes standard spreadsheet environments such as OpenOffice and Excel and dedicated …

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Flexible stochastic volatility structures for high frequency financial data

Feldmann, David; Härdle, Wolfgang; Hafner, Christian M.; … - 1998

Stochastic Volatility (SV) models are widely used in financial applications. To decide whether standard parametric restrictions are justified for a given dataset, a statistical test is required. In this paper, we develop such a test based on the linear state space representation. We provide a...

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A bootstrap test for single index models

Härdle, Wolfgang; Mammen, Enno; Proença, Isabel - 2000

Single index models are frequently used in econometrics and biometrics. Logit and Probit models are special cases with fixed link functions. In this paper we consider a bootstrap specification test that detects nonparametric deviations of the link function. The bootstrap is used with the aim to...

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Statistical tools for finance and insurance

Čížek, Pavel (contributor); Härdle, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2005

Statistical Tools in Finance and Insurance presents ready-to-use solutions, theoretical developments and method construction for many practical problems in quantitative finance and insurance. Written by practitioners and leading academics in the field of quantitative finance and insurance, this...

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Einführung in die Statistik der Finanzmärkte

Franke, Jürgen; Härdle, Wolfgang - 2004 - 2. Aufl.

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Overview of methods for multidimensional poverty assessment

Alkire, Sabina; Foster, James E.; Seth, Suman; Santo, … - 2015

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The three dimensions of multimedia teaching of statistics

Derby, Nathaniel; Härdle, Wolfgang; Rönz, Bernd - 1999

Statistics is often difficult for students, since it requires coordination of quantitative and graphical insights with … mathematical ability. Furthermore, ever-increasing special knowledge of statistics is demanded, since data of increasing complexity … teaching statistics is obsolete, continuing to rely on the blackboard, textbooks, and handwritten homework. With only these …

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Estimating Poverty for Refugee Populations : Can Cross-Survey Imputation Methods Substitute for Data Scarcity?

Dang, Hai-Anh - 2019

The increasing growth of forced displacement worldwide has led to the stronger interest of various stakeholders in measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper...

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