The paper describes a socio demographic and economic research performed on the first year students at the Ecological University of Bucharest, where we are focusing on understanding and investigating the conditions inside the families and the social environment in the home towns of these...

Public sector information contains great value for the citizens in general. Data stored on computers of public institutions doesn’t have value on its own. It has to be processed and analyzed to obtain information, and further on, information should be made available as public good, in order to...

Simple and intuitive non-parametric methods are provided for estimating variance change points for time series data. Only slight alterations to existing open-source computer code applying CUSUM methods for estimating breakpoints are required to apply our proposed techniques. Our approach,...