Leptokurtic distributions can be generated by applying certainnon-linear transformations to a standard normal random variable. Withinthis work we derive general conditions for these transformations which guaranteethat the generated distributions are ordered with respect to the partialordering of...

Using the Gaussian distribution as statistical model for data sets is widely spread, especiallyin practice. However, departure from normality seems to be more the rule than theexception. The H-distributions, introduced by Tukey (1960, 1977), are generated by a singletransformation...

We analyse an empirical case study of an inter-organizational information system (IOIS) in theAustralian pharmaceutical distribution industry, using a theoretical data coding approach, toprovide a concise grounded account of changes in the material, normative and ideationalstructures within the...

Parallel programming of MIMD machines with distributed memory is typically based on standardmessage passing libraries such as MPI [1], which leads to platform independent and efficientsoftware. However, the programming level is rather low, and the development of a parallel applicationcan be a...

Many software reliability growth models assume that the time to next failure may be infinite; i.e., there is a chance that no failure will occur at all. For most software products this is too good to be true even after the testing phase. Moreover, if a non-zero probability is assigned to an...

While much of classical statistical analysis is based on Gaussian distributional assumptions, statistical modeling with the Laplace distribution has gained importance in many applied fields. This phenomenon is rooted in the fact that, like the Gaussian, the Laplace distribution has many...

Most research on the performance and risk of hedge funds are based on calculations that just use the data from one index provider. Also most product providers and even more and more investors are using hedge fund indices for benchmarking purposes. As some academic articles pointed out, the world...