Along with many others, we agree that a modern education in statistics needs to incorporate the practical analysis of real datasets, which are usually more complex than the common examples found in standard textbooks. The software used in the teaching of statistics includes standard spreadsheet...

Normal distribution of the residuals is the traditional assumption in the classical multivariate time series models. Nevertheless it is not very often consistent with the real data. Copulae allows for an extension of the classical time series models to nonelliptically distributed residuals. In...

Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- 1. Ziel und Methode -- 2. Das menschliche Verhalten als Basismodell -- 3. Angebot und Nachfrage als Verhaltensentscheidung von Tauschpartnern -- 4. Die Tauschwertbildung beim Handel zwischen nur zwei Marktteilnehmern -- 5. Die Preis- und...