Calculating global solar irradiation from global horizontal irradiation only is a difficult task, especially when the time step is small and the data are not averaged. We used an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to realize this conversion. The ANN is optimized and tested on the basis of five...

This paper develops and implements a GMM estimator for latent class models suitable for count data. The estimator uses conditional moment restrictions derived from standard count models. Both the efficient and consistent variants are considered. The implementation of optimal GMM based on...

The appraisal profession and the appraisal process look different than a decade ago. Many changes have come in reaction to problems in property markets others as a result of the development of the knowledge of the real estate appraisal discipline. The real estate crisis creates a debate...