Cross-sectional data from twins contain information that can be used to derive a test of causality between traits. This test of directionality is based upon the fact that genetic relationships between family members conform to an established structural pattern. In this paper we examine several...

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) uses pairwise comparison to evaluate alternatives' advantages to a certain criterion. For decision-making problem with many different criteria and alternatives, pairwise comparison causes a prolonged decision-making period and rises fatigue in...

This paper focuses on modeling power exchanges in a multi-agent interacting framework with reduced behavioral assumptions. A model of the day ahead market session of OMEL (the Spanish Power Exchange) is proposed using real demand data with simulated seller strategies. The number of sellers is...

A method is derived to forecast theextreme heights of later waves in Pacific-widetsunamis, for locations in the vicinity of real-timereporting tide gages. The forecast for wave peaks hasthe form η<Subscript>F</Subscript>(t)=η<Subscript>B</Subscript>(t) + η<Subscript>e</Subscript>(t),where η<Subscript>e</Subscript>=Aσ exp [- (t - t<Subscript>o</Subscript>)/τ ]. Here, the forecast begins attime t=t<Subscript>o</Subscript>,...</subscript></subscript></subscript></subscript></subscript></subscript>

In a situation when no single sample inc1udes all the endogenous variables of a simultaneous equation model but there are two (or more) non-overlapping samples and each variable is included in at least one, then it is possible to pool the data and estimate the model consistently by a two-stage...

In a situation when no single sample inc1udes all the endogenous variables of a simultaneous equation model but there are two (or more) non-overlapping samples and each variable is included in at least one, then it is possible to pool the data and estimate the model consistently by a two-stage...