This paper investigates the use of Design of Experiments in observational studies in order to select informative observations and features for classification. D-optimal plans are searched for in existing data and based on these plans the variables most relevant for classification are determined....

The author constructs a formal analytic framework to simulate the impact of various economic shocks on the household debt-service ratio, using data from the Canadian Financial Monitor (CFM) survey. The impact of these shocks on individual households depends on the socio-economic characteristics...

"This second edition is revised and updated and explains how to use many recent technical developments in time series econometrics. The main objective of this book is to help many applied economists, with a limited background in econometric estimation theory, to understand and apply widely used...