This work shows a procedure that aims to eliminate or reduce the bias caused by omitted variables by means of the so-called regime-switching regressions. There is a bias estimation whenever the statistical (linear) model is under-specified, that is, when there are some omitted variables and they...

This article uses several approaches to deal with the difficulty involved in evaluating the intractable integral when using Gibbs sampling to estimate the nonlinear mixed effects model (NLMM) based on the Dirichlet process (DP). For illustration, we applied these approaches to real data and...

The paper presents the results of an extensive real time analysis of alternative model-based approaches to derive a monthly indicator of employment for the euro area. In the experiment the Eurostat quarterly national accounts series of employment is temporally disaggregated using the information...

The occurrence of temporary stock-outs at retail is common in frequently purchased product categories. Available empirical evidence suggests that when faced with stock-outs, consumers are often willing to buy substitute items. An important implication of this consumer behavior is that observed...

Standard discriminant analysis supposes that both the training sample and the test sample are derived from the same population. When these samples arise from populations differing in their descriptive parameters, a generalization of discriminant analysis consists of adapting the classification...

We propose Bayesian methods with five types of priors to estimate cell probabilities in an incomplete multi-way contingency table under nonignorable nonresponse. In this situation, the maximum likelihood (ML) estimates often fall in the boundary solution, causing the ML estimates to become...