A New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts brings together a distinguished group of contributors to initiate the development of a comprehensive and fully integrated set of United States national accounts. The purpose of the new architecture is not only to integrate the existing systems of...

1 Introduction -- 2 Vague Data -- 3 Fuzzy Sets of the Real Line -- 4 Operations on Fuzzy Sets -- 4.1 Set Theoretical Operations -- 4.2 On Zadeh’s Extension Principle -- 4.3 Arithmetic Operations -- 5 Representation of Vague Data in a Digital Computer -- 6 Topological Properties of Fuzzy Set...

Rapidly changing technology, the globalization of markets, and the declining role of unions are just some of the factors that have led to dramatic changes in working conditions in the United States. Little attention has been paid to the difficult measurement problems underlying analysis of the...

"The authors examine the distributional implications of selective compliance in sample surveys, whereby households with different incomes are not equally likely to participate. They discuss poverty and inequality measurement implications for monotonically decreasing and inverted-U...

Dieses fundierte Lehrbuch führt umfassend und praxisrelevant in die statistische Methodenlehre für wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Studiengänge ein. Verfahren der Deskriptiven Statistik, der Explorativen Datenanalyse, der Stochastik, der Induktiven Statistik sowie der Multivariaten Statistik...

Im Gegensatz zu einer Veröffentlichung über formale statistische Methoden, die bei Neuauflagen in der Regel durch neuere Methoden ergänzt wird, ist die Datengewinnung in der Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistik von der Entwicklung der amtlichen und nicht amtlichen praktischen Statistik abhängig,...