Nowcasting has been a challenge in the recent economic crisis. We introduce the Toll Index, a new monthly indicator for business cycle forecasting and demonstrate its relevance using German data. The index measures the monthly transportation activity performed by heavy transport vehicles across...

This thesis paper presents a case study of customer analysis with the purpose of to developing a marketing strategy for the statistical software XploRe. The customers analysed include the users, who downloaded XploRe free trial version through web site and the actual customers, who bought...