We examine the use of Confocal Laser Tomographic images for detecting glaucoma. From the clinical aspect, the optic nerve head's (ONH) area contains all the relevant information on glaucoma. The shape of ONH is approximately a skewed cup. We summarize its shape by three biological landmarks on...

This paper develops a multivariate statistical model for the analysis of credit default swap spreads. Given the large excess kurtosis of the univariate marginal distributions, it is proposed to model them by means of a mixture of distributions. However, the multivariate extension of this...

This paper investigates secular changes in the distribution of personal expen-diture in Italy over the period 1881-1961. To do so, the authors constructed a new dataset, the Italian Household Budgets Database (IHBD), consisting of 4,370 family-level budgets. Methodologically, this paper improves...