This paper presents a global approach for museum assessment. We define a museum as an entity which needs to be evaluated according to three well defined tasks: preservation, research and communication.

The entropy principle yields, for a given set moments, a density that involves the smallest amount of prior information. We first show how entropy densities may be constructed in a numerically efficient way as the minimization of a potential. Next, for the case where the first four moments are...

The purpose of this paper is to consider the problem of statistical inference about a hazard rate function that is specified as the product of a parametric regression part and a non-parametric baseline hazard. Unlike Cox's proportional hazard model, the baseline hazard not only depends on the...

In this paper we consider a new analytic center cutting plane method in a projective space. We prove the efficiency for the general scheme and show that these results can be used in the analysis of a feasability problem, the variational inequality problem and the problem if constrained...

This paper is a user' guide to a set of Guss procedures developed at the Bank of Canada for estimating regime-switching models. The procedure can estimate relatively quickly a wide variety of switching models and so should prove useful to the applied researchers. Sample program listings are...