As part of an overall effort to upgrade and streamline methodologies for safety analyses of nonreactor nuclear facilities at the Savannah River Site (SRS), a human error data base has been developed and is presented in this report. The data base fulfills several needs of risk analysts supporting...

Sometimes a regulatory requirement or a quality-assurance procedure sets an allowed maximum on a confidence limit for a mean. If the sample mean of the measurements is below the allowed maximum, but the confidence limit is above it, a very widespread practice is to increase the sample size and...

Sometimes a regulatory requirement or a quality-assurance procedure sets an allowed maximum on a confidence limit for a mean. If the sample mean of the measurements is below the allowed maximum, but the confidence limit is above it, a very widespread practice is to increase the sample size and...

The purpose of this presentation is to provide a brief introduction to measurement uncertainty analysis, outline how it is done, and illustrate uncertainty analysis with examples drawn from the PV field, with particular emphasis toward its use in PV performance measurements. The uncertainty...

The first essay presents a closed-form pricing formula for a European call warrant issued by a leveraged firm and demonstrates there are significant pricing errors if the formula derived under the all-equity firm assumption in Schulz & Trautmann (Journal of Banking and Finance, 1994) and the...

From the Department of Labor, the best survey for flexibility data comes from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS is a monthly survey of 60,000 households that provides data on the labor force, employment, unemployment, and persons not in the labor force.The benefit of the CPS is that...

Technical analysis is a category of securities trading that utilizes mathematical formulas in order to signal buying and selling points. This paper will evaluate the profitability of various technical methods over a five-year period starting January 1, 2003, with securities in the Dow Jones...