Banking companies face an essential dilemma is for the credibility and effectiveness of operation: who is the best solution for the bank to tranzacţiiile secure, fast, effective and compatible? Variations consist in the age of Intranet site or Virtual private networks. Intranet solution...

This paper focuses on analyzing data collected in situations where investigators use multiple discrete indicators as surrogates, for example, a set of questionnaires. A very flexible latent class model is used for analysis. We propose a Bayesian framework to perform the joint estimation of the...

This article seeks to measure deprivation among Portuguese households, taking into account four well-being dimensions - housing, durable goods, economic strain and social relationships - with survey data from the European Community Household Panel. We propose a multi-stage approach to a...

The shape of the likelihood of several recently developed econometric models is often non-elliptical. Learning this shape using Gibbs sampling is discussed in this paper. A systematic analysis using graphical and computational methods is presented. Examples of the models considered in this paper...