В статье рассмотрены вопросы влияния инноваций на содержание банковской деятельности и структуру банковской системы. Раскрыты общие черты дистанционного...

This paper estimates response surface coefficients for a large range of quantiles of the cross-sectionally augmented IPS (CIPS) test of Pesaran (<CitationRef CitationID="CR13">2007</CitationRef>), for different specifications of the deterministic components. An Excel programme is available to calculate the P value associated with a CIPS...</citationref>

In many psychological inventories (i.e., personnel selection surveys and diagnostic tests) the collected samples often include fraudulent records. This confronts the researcher with the crucial problem of biases yielded by the usage of standard statistical models. In this paper we applied a...

Measuring the effect of technological activities on productivity growth is an issue that attracted much attention in recent works on empirical econometric studies. Specifically, in the field of regional economics, several attempts have been made in order to quantify the contribution of R&D to...

In this paper, we describe the computational framework of a novel method for solving the challenging problem of probabilistic finite elements. The method is called Improved Dynamic Bounds (IDB) and was developed recently to improve the efficiency of the dynamic bounds. The IDB is used in finite...

A recently developed Bayesian interpolation method (BI) and its application to safety assessment of a flood defense structure are described in this paper. We use a one-dimensional Bayesian Monte Carlo method (BMC) that has been proposed in (Rajabalinejad <CitationRef CitationID="CR7">2009</CitationRef>) to develop a weighted logical...</citationref>

In this study, we address the effective method to apply a novel reliability method integrated with finite element models to the safety assessment of pilot site Scheldt in the Netherlands. This site was considered as one of the three main pilot sites in Europe to assess the application of newly...

Finding the “best-fitting” circle to describe a set of points in two dimensions is discussed in terms of maximum likelihood estimation. Several combinations of distributions are proposed to describe the stochastic nature of points in the plane, as the points are considered to have a common,...

This paper calculates response surface models for a large range of quantiles of the Leybourne (Oxf Bull Econ Stat 57:559–571, <CitationRef CitationID="CR9">1995</CitationRef>) test for the null hypothesis of a unit root against the alternative of (trend) stationarity. The response surface models allow the estimation of critical values...</citationref>

A regularized joint inverse procedure is presented and used to estimate the magnitude of extreme rainfall events in ungauged coastal river basins of El Salvador: Paz, Jiboa, Grande de San Miguel, and Goascoran. Since streamflow measurements reflect temporal and spatial rainfall information,...