The largest partial sum of deviations from the mean is a statistic of importance in several areas of application, including hydrology and in testing for a change-point. Approximations to its distribution for the simple normal case have appeared in the literature, based either on functionals of...

The R/s statistic, used for many years in hydrology, is increasingly employed in economics, although deficiencies in knowledge about its exact distribution have inhibited progress. Harrison and Treacy (1997) described some applications where R/s arises as a test statistic and they derived close...

This paper utilised the national Household Budget Survey to examine patterns in energy use and their relevance to policy. Income elasticities for the various fuels were calculated and their implications assessed, with particular emphasis on the potential for policy to reduce or restrain...

This chapter sets out a detailed Central Forecast for the Irish Economy for the period to 2003. It is based on the set of assumptions, described in earlier chapters, concerning the external environment, domestic economic policy and basic demographic trends. It represents the authors' best...

Evaluations of programmes ?for example, labour market interventions such as employment schemes and training courses- usually involve comparison of the performance of a treatment group (recipients of the programme) with a control group (non-recipients) as regards some response (gaining employment...

This paper reviews the international literature on house price indices, looking at the basic methodologies employed, the variables chosen for the indices and the functional forms used. Ideas are sought for future improvements to an Irish index and tentative assessments are made of how Irish...