The Doing Business (DB) Project of the World Bank has a large impact on media, policy makers and private sector and could have a significant influence on future policies implementation. For these reasons it would be important to better evaluate the rank criteria and avoid the choice of...

We present a unifying view on various statistical estimation techniques including penalization, variational, and thresholding methods. These estimators are analyzed in the context of statistical linear inverse problems including nonparametric and change point regression, and high-dimensional...

Spatial statistics is concerned with the analysis of data that have spatial locations associated with them, and those locations are used to model statistical dependence between the data. The spatial data are treated as a single realization from a probability model that encodes the dependence...

This 2nd edition compendium contains and explains essential statistical formulas within an economic context. Expanded by more than 100 pages compared to the 1st edition, the compendium has been supplemented with numerous additional practical examples, which will help readers to better understand...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Data for Analytics in Small Businesses -- Chapter 3: Business Analytics Consulting -- Chapter 4: Business Analytics Consulting Phases -- Chapter 5: Descriptive Analytics Tools -- Chapter 6: Predicting Numeric Outcomes -- Chapter 7: Classification Techniques...