(WP 14/03 Clave pdf)High-dimensional contingency tables tend to be sparse and standard goodness-of-fit statistics such as X 2 cannot be used without pooling categories.As an improvement on arbitrary pooling, for goodness-of-fit of large 2 n contingency tables, we propose a class of quadratic...

Consumer sentiment has the ability to provide researchers with many avenues to test existingFinance and Economic theories. Chapter 1 introduces the issues that I seek to explore within the area ofBehavioral Finance. Chapter 2 utilizes thirty years of consumer sentiment data to explore...