This paper reviews methods that have been employed to estimate poverty in contexts where household consumption data are unavailable or missing. These contexts range from completely missing and partially missing consumption data in cross-sectional household surveys, to missing panel household...

Crude oil prices are particularly volatile. Managing such price risks is vital for participants in financial markets, in particular the oil market. In the perspective of a long position, we conduct an in-depth study of popular existing statistical approaches as well as a recently developed...

Purpose: Most of the managers in business organizations do not place a great significanceover the statistical methods and statistical thinking, because they are often convinced thatstatistical thinking would not contribute towards adding any value to management and tobusiness related decision...

This study assesses the classification accuracies of two statistical methods namely, multiple discriminant analysis and logistic regression approach in default prediction. It uses a small sample of 32 India firms listed on Bombay Stock Exchange for the sample period of six years over 2010-11 to...

As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, researchers are reporting findings of randomized trials comparing standard care with care augmented by experimental drugs. The trials have small sample sizes, so estimates of treatment effects are imprecise. Seeing imprecision, clinicians reading research...

Italian Abstract Il lavoro fornisce un quadro delle informazioni statistiche sul rischio di credito gestite dalla Banca d'Italia. L'Istituto ha una lunga tradizione nella raccolta sistematica e dettagliata di informazioni dal sistema finanziario. Con particolare riferimento a quelle sul rischio...

The advancement of information technologies such as Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing and the increasing deployment and use of the Internet of Things have promoted the capture, processing and storage of data over the last few years at a rate not seen before. The amount of data that are created,...

This Review and Inputs paper covers the following UNSD publications:(pp. 2-6)1/ Issues and Opportunities. Notes on the revision of the Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System. The Hague, July 2020Re: Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System, Revision 3...

How costly will rising temperature due to climate change be for the U.S. economy? Recent research has used the well-identified response of output to weather to estimate this cost. But agents may adapt to the new climate. We propose a methodology to infer adaptation technology from the...

The American Community Survey (ACS) is the largest household survey in the United States and indispensable for detailed analysis of specific places and populations. This paper introduces a technique to produce “small area” (e.g. census tract) estimates of any person- or household-level...