We obtain approximations to the distribution of the exponent in the matrix Fisher distributions on SO(p) and on O(p) whose density with respect to Haar measure is proportional to exp(Tr GX0tX). Similar approximations are found for the distribution of the exponent in the Bingham distribution,...

The purpose of this research is to examine some competing assumptions regarding the hiring behaviour of major league baseball clubs. One hypothesis is that owners and general managers of teams enter the free agent market with a view to attracting the best talent available in order to win games....

The decade of the 1980s saw profound changes in the political economy of Latin America. The stabilisation and debt crises forced many countries in the region to re-examine their economic policies individually as well as collectively. The consequence was both a movement in the direction of...

The diagonal natural exponential families (NEFs) on [real]r were defined and classified recently by Bar-Lev et al. (1994). In this paper, we apply explicit formulas for the Mehler kernels of certain bivariate diagonal NEF classes to develop the total positivity properties of these NEFs and the...

We generalize an integral which arises in several areas in probability and statistics and which is at the core of the field of distance correlation, a concept developed by Székely et al. (2007) to measure dependence between random variables.

Stock returns are a significant predictor of future capital investment growth and even predict investment growth better than Tobins q. Since the capital investment decision process is fundamental to corporate finance, understanding the potential factors that drive the ability of returns to...