The behaviour of a near-critical sample of SF6, bounded by container walls with finite thermal properties, was studied in space during the 1994 IML-2 mission. Experiments were performed in the range 2500 to 1 mK above the critical point in which simultaneous density and temperature measurements...

The log normal reserving model is considered. The contribution of the paper is to derive explicit expressions for the maximum likelihood estimators. These are expressed in terms of development factors which are geometric averages. The distribution of the estimators is derived. It is shown that...

Design of Experiments and Reliability are two well known statistical techniques very useful in efforts towards the improvement of industrial products. Usually these two tools are applied separately, leading practitioners to believe they are fit to solve problems of a different matter. This...

While making a statistical model it is important both, to find a theoretical distribution function that would characterize empirical frequency distribution and to choose a suitable method of parameter estimate of such model. Recently used type of a theoretical model of income distribution (the...

An exchange rate model with heterogeneous expectations is developed in which agents are subject to mutual mimetic contagion in their portfolio decisions. Two alternative sources of heterogeneity are tested in order to explain the short-term dynamics of the euro/dollar since January 1999....

Importance measures have been widely studied and applied in reliability and safety engineering. This paper presents a general formulation of moment-independent importance measures and several commonly discussed importance measures are unified based on Minkowski distance (MD). Moment-independent...

Relying on Pigou's view, environmental taxes increase the costs of polluting activities reflecting in this way the true social cost imposed to society by the caused environmental damage by these activities. The total pollution cost (TPC) is defined by adding up the marginal abatement (MAC) and...

This paper illustrates how to compare different microscopic simulation (MS) models and how to compare a MS model with real data in case the parameters of interest are estimated non- or semiparametrically.As examples we investigate the marginal single-period probability density function of stock...