The triggering cause of the present research is given by the high complexity of the interdisciplinary technical projects carried out by means of Systems Engineering (SE) methodology, and implicitly by the well acknowledged needs in the field for more advanced decision making tools to increase...

The cross sectional study of perceived risk of automobile drivers using mobile phone while driving was carried using 250 questionnaires on habits and experience of automobile drivers in Ibadan Metropolis, Nigeria. The questionnaires were served through purposive random sampling technique at...

Many of the companies offer for selling a product line, that is a closely interrelated products group, which operates in a similar manner, there are generally sold to the same customer groups, there are distributed through the same type of distribution channels and ranges between the same price...

As the people are constantly changing, so are the institutions. The population begin to have greater expectations from industries that directly involves them. One of them is the hospital. As time goes by, people demand a certain level of quality and improvement. To meet their requirements,...

D. N. McCloskey and Stephen Ziliak have criticized economists and others for confounding statistical and substantive significance, and for committing the logical error of the transposed conditional. In doing so they sometimes misinterpret the function of significance tests. Nonetheless,...

Tests of statistical significance are routinely used in many research studies. However, there are critics of this paradigm, and also a lingering sense that critical test levels are somewhat arbitrary. This paper adds to the literature by determining the timing and level of acceptance of common...

D. N. McCloskey and Stephen Ziliak have criticized economists and others for confounding statistical and substantive significance, and for committing the logical error of the transposed conditional. In doing so they sometimes misinterpret the function of significance tests. Nonetheless,...

D. N. McCloskey and Stephen Ziliak have criticized economists and others for confounding statistical and substantive significance, and for committing the logical error of the transposed conditional. In doing so they sometimes misinterpret the function of significance tests. Nonetheless,...

Before condemning data mining one should distinguish between objective and biased data mining. The former is commendable. Even biased data mining is appropriate when used to illustrate and not to test hypotheses. In the context of testing, the problem with biased data mining arises not from the...

This paper re-evaluates academic research on 92 cross-sectional stock return predictors. Researchers studying return predictability must make decisions about portfolio construction; for example, whether to rebalance annually or monthly. In sample, the returns of predictor portfolios constructed...