Robust selection of variables in a linear regression model is investigated. Many variable selection methods are available, but very few methods are designed to avoid sensitivity to vertical outliers as well as to leverage points. The nonnegative garrote method is a powerful variable selection...

Empirical Bayes’s (EB) estimation has become a popular procedure used to calculate teacher value added, often as a way to make imprecise estimates more reliable. In this article, we review the theory of EB estimation and use simulated and real student achievement data to study the ability...

Analyzing scientific and normative literature and making an empirical research in Lithuanian companies of trading and audit, it is set the particularities of accounting ant audit of goods, main problems of the audit of goods and solution of those problems.The object of research – accounting...