Expected utility theory (EUT) has been challenged as a descriptive theory in many contexts. The medical decision analysis context is not an exception. Several researchers have suggested that rank dependent utility theory (RDUT) may accurately describe how people evaluate alternative medical...

A Method is offered that makes it possible to apply generalized canonical correlations analysis (CANCOR) to two or more matrices of different row and column order. The new method optimizes the generalized canonical correlation analysis objective by considering only the observed values. This is...

With the two aims of monitoring social change and improving social measurement, the European Social Survey is now closing its third round. This paper shows how the accumulated experience of the two first rounds has been used to validate the questionnaire, better adapt the sampling design to the...

Expected utility theory (EUT) has been challenged as a descriptive theory in many contexts. The medical decision analysis context is not an exception. Several researchers have suggested that rank dependent utility theory (RDUT) may accurately describe how people evaluate alternative medical...

In der ersten Deutschen Auflage des erfolgreichen Lehrbuches Volkswirtschaft verwenden die Autoren Daron Acemoglu, David Laibson und John List reale wirtschaftliche Fragen und Daten, um den Lesern zu helfen, etwas über die ökonomische Welt um sich herum zu lernen.

Dieses aktuelle Lehrbuch der Volkswirtschaftslehre, das mit vielen aktuellen Fallstudien punktet und Studierende nicht nur in die klassischen Theorien der Marktmechanismen einführt, sondern auch mit neuen Konzepten und Ansätzen, wie z.B. der Spieltheorie, vertraut macht, darf in keinem gut...