The development of high-quality products or production processes can often be greatly improved by statistically planned and analysed experiments. Taguchi methods proved to be a milestone in this field, suggesting optimal design settings for a single measured response. However, these often fail...

In this paper the task of identifying outliers in exponential samples is treated conceptionally in the sense of Davies and Gather (1989, 1993) by means of a so called outlier region. In case of an exponential distribution, an empirical approximation of such a region also called an outlier...

We show that OLS and GLS are asymptotically equivalent in the linear regression model with AR (p) disturbances and a wide range of trending regressors_ and that OLS based statistical inference is still meaningful after proper adjustment of the test statistics.

It is shown that the null distribution of the F-test in a linear regression is rather non-robust to spatial autocorrelation among the regression disturbances. In particular, the true size of the test tends to either zero or unity when the spatial autocorrelation coefficient approaches the...

This paper illustrates the Support Vector Method for the classification problem with two and more classes. In particular, the multi-class classification Support Vector Method of Weston and Watkins (1998) is correctly formulated as a quadratic optimization problem. Then, the method is applied to...

Thirteen Stylized Facts of the german economy are studied with different descriptive statistical methods. The results of this study are considered with respect to other results from Project B3 Multivariate Bestimmung und Untersuchung von Konjunkturzyklen.

This note generalizes previous results on the asymptotic equivalence of Ordinary and Generalized Least Squares estimates in Linear Regression models with trending data.