The publication presents the biographies and achievements of over 30 people who, since the beginning of the 20th century, have contributed to the development of the theory and methodology of statistical research at country level as well as internationally. The book is about statisticians who...

We show that any consistent tests for serial correlation have unit local power against the nearly integrated, nearly white noise process. The expected higher power is confirmed in finite sample Monte Carlo simulations

Targeting individual consumers has become a hallmark of direct and digital marketing, particularly as it has become easier to identify customers as they interact repeatedly with a company. However, across a wide variety of contexts and tracking technologies, companies find that customers can not...

Covariance structure analysis and its structural equation modeling extensions have become one of the most widely used methodologies in social sciences such as psychology, education, and economics. An important issue in such analysis is to assess the goodness-of-fit of a model under analysis. One...

We are occupied with a simple example concerning the limit theory of the OLSE when the innovation process of the regression has the form of a martingale transform the i.i.d. part of which lies in the domain of attraction of an \alpha-stable distribution, the scalling sequence has a potentially...

The paper is concerned with loss reserving at the individual claim level (also referred to as micro-reserving or granular reserving) in the context of workers compensation, or similar income replacement insurance. The individual claim reserve is constructed on the basis of detailed information,...